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...comply with the WTO’s ruling. At stake in its decision are the living standards of consumers and workers both in America and abroad, the sanctity of international law and America’s standing as the leader of trade liberalization. On the other side are the narrow political considerations to which Bush gave in when he imposed the tariffs last year. Let’s hope Bush’s better angels...
Collector's items like this magazine clutch bag and old issues of Vogue are standard fare at Fashion Dig. Vintage hounds with time to browse can duck into individual shops or use the Look Finder menus to narrow their search. Happy hunting...
...that separate souls?that concern Freudenberger. In The Orphan, as Alice watches her dissolving family, she "thinks of the incredible frustration of not knowing things, and of knowing that they can't be known?the incredible privacy of other people's experience." Thankfully, we have writers like Freudenberger to narrow the lonely spaces and reveal the possibility of connection...
...many North Koreans, it's perhaps just as well that not much light shines from the Hermit Kingdom onto the river. For this narrow, watery stretch is where thousands of North Korean refugees have crossed secretly into China every year to flee famine and oppression. The vast majority are women. Although many men and children come for short stints of begging or manual labor before returning home with full bellies and a bit of cash, most North Korean women come to China for new lives. The younger, prettier ones often end up at the euphemistically named "beauty salons." But thousands...
Given these facts, this month’s figures should come as no shock. They stand as an entirely expected, but no less dismaying, testament to the unduly narrow policy imposed on this year’s early applicants by the admissions office. With any luck, that office will be able to see beyond the superficial benefit in a reduced load of paperwork and open Harvard once again to the fullest range of potential students...