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...harder to get a strong U.S. position. Do you agree? Without doubt, the Administration needs to do some heavy lifting with a Congress it no longer controls and a farm lobby that still has considerable power. Against this, President Bush is a free trader by instinct and wants to do the deal. We need to show that, in fact, it will not cost the U.S. much to cut its subsidies, yet will provide longer-term benefits to the economy. Agriculture is still the biggest sticking point...
...students have a right to know, before they vote, if this referendum will mean higher tuition or termbill fees, if it might mean funding cuts in other areas of FAS (and what areas they might be), or if private and government grants or loans could be used to jumpstart longer-term efforts. Right now, students do not have the information available to make an informed decision on the costs and benefits of a long-term greenhouse gas emissions reduction effort on campus...
...more fundamental and longer-term problem is that in the process the administration has been enabled by the progressive surrender of the political, intellectual, and emotional independence of both the conservative base and Congressional Republicans. President George W. Bush may have made the bad decisions, but he has been enabled by what you might call the Hannitizing of the party base and legislators—the nearly conscious willingness to become so indoctrinated that the facts begin to matter less than the party line interpretation of those facts, such that one forsakes the ends for which one initially joined...
Zillow has partnership agreements with Microsoft (for satellite imagery), Yahoo! (for links on the portal's real estate site) and Google (for ads). That could set the stage for a longer-term deal--or an acquisition--down the road. Meanwhile, to tame the chaos characteristic of early start-ups, Barton has set some limits. "We have foosball and air-hockey tables," he says, "but we don't have dogs running around...
...Lebanese government wants an immediate cease-fire, with the longer-term agreements aimed at ending hostilities to follow. And it envisages a process based on Hizballah's consent - the movement would agree to disarm not as an act of surrender, but because Israel has agreed to settle the outstanding disputes with Lebanon over owndership of the Shebaa Farms area and the fate of Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails. The Qana killings will likely increase Hizballah's influence over the position of the Lebanese government: The two Lebanese officials with whom Secretary Rice met last week - Prime Minister Fuad Siniora...