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...scene: a shadowy place, with looming 20 ft. trees. A deep pit in the ground. People speaking quickly, rushing by, intent on completing their tasks. A cross between a sinister mystery and an office scene? No. This is the Loeb Mainstage, a week and a half before opening night of Into the Woods, a musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine...
...execution will be shown live via closed-circuit television to a group of several hundred survivors and victims' family members gathered in Oklahoma City. The transmission and those who watch it will be carefully monitored (even cell phones will not be permitted) in an attempt to stave off entrepreneurs intent on hijacking the signal. Only those considered by the U.S. Justice Department to have a specific interest in McVeigh's death will be permitted to view the execution itself. We'll hear all about it on the news, of course, but the grisly final moments are reserved for just...
Take, for example, trade in services, which was not extensively covered in NAFTA. A leaked Oct. 7 1999 FTAA Negotiation Group report indicates that the U.S. is intent on liberalizing trade in services, including publicly-funded services like social security, health care and education...
...assuming that the country will be interested in speeding up the trade negotiations. Brazil is scheduled to preside with the U.S. over FTAA trade meetings in 2003 and 2004, so Brazilian officials "don't want to see their position of leadership cut" by accelerating the process. Moreover, Brazil is intent on negotiating a trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur trade group that it leads, "which it can then use as the basis for negotiating in the FTAA." On the other hand, Brazil's desire to complete a free-trade area in South America before joining the FTAA...
...time news of the harrowing collision became public, a similar drill was being repeated in Washington and Beijing. Some on the front lines of the U.S.-China relationship were trying to save it, while others in the back seemed intent on blowing it up. Neither country was able to manage a clear response for days. In both, there are hard-liners, who seem to miss the days of cold war chest thumping, arrayed against accommodationists, who value, among other peace dividends, the $116 billion in annual trade. It was in the interest of both to let the other side know...