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...August, he was confronted with gutsy pieces tackling an array of provocative subjects - from burqas to madrasahs to militarism. He paused for a long time at Left Right, a video installation about the omnipresence of Pakistan's army by the young artist Hamra Abbas, who depicts soldiers patrolling land, sea and desert...
...gets. That's not to say Lieberman-Warner is perfect. Its emissions targets should be tougher, and it gives away too many pollution allowances for free. But let's dream for a moment. If it manages to pass both houses of Congress (a mighty big if), the bill would land with a thud on George W. Bush's desk shortly before the 2008 election. Bush has always said he would veto any bill with mandatory carbon caps. But he recently sent a back-channel signal to Congress that he might be willing to deal. Now that would be some abrupt...
...check" for the CAP, the policy review suggests revamping the Union's single biggest policy domain to better address modern challenges like climate change, the boom in biofuels, water management and protecting biodiversity. The Commission floats once heretical ideas such as phasing out milk quotas, scrapping rules on keeping land fallow and guaranteeing minimum cereal prices...
...proposals target not only the biggest, but also the smallest: the amount of land a farmer has to own to be eligible for aid would rise. At the moment that stands at 0.3 hectares, less than the size of a football field, and the Commission says the administrative cost of dealing with such postage-stamp holdings is often more than the subsidy itself...
...Other proposals include scrapping the practice of "set-asides" - whereby farmers have to leave 10% of their land idle at any given time - and ending the practice of buying surplus production of key commodities like cereals at a guaranteed price...