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Attorney General Eric Holder announced that five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks, including confessed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will face trial next year in a New York City federal court. Holder and President Obama say they expect prosecutors to push for the death penalty. Critics slammed the decision, claiming that the defendants' presence in New York will create a media circus and put the city at risk of another attack. Experts also noted the legal issues a civilian trial will raise--including the use of evidence obtained through waterboarding, to which Mohammed was subjected 183 times...
World leaders signaled they would not seek a legally binding agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions at next month's climate talks in Copenhagen, confirming mounting doubts that the conference would yield a landmark pact. Instead, a coalition including U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao announced at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that it will aim to build political consensus, paving the way for concrete steps. The biggest challenge will be aligning the interests of developing and industrialized nations: the U.S., among others, argues that because emerging powers like China and India are among the largest emitters...
...once regional company that collects and sells scrap metal. Had it not been for Chinese demand driving up the cost of scrap, Schnitzer would not have seen the soaring profits that allow it to employ more than 3,000 people. Or consider the Greek-American businessman I sat next to on a long flight to Hong Kong who was able to turn his small wedding boutique into a regional chain with his own line in department stores because of the efficiencies that flowed from making his dresses in China. Those stores employed American workers and helped women of modest means...
...late 19th century. What remains to be seen is whether the rise of China will complement the U.S. or undermine it; whether the future will bring a new, cooperative and mutually beneficial economic order rather than a predictable replay of one great power giving way to the next. That future - burgeoning with possibilities and fraught with challenges - is ours to write...
...hurricane. He needed a new name, he says, because the real Mateo died with Lena. But now he learns of the death of Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a wealthy businessman who financed Lena's entrance into movies and whom Mateo blames for her death. For the next two hours, Almodóvar suavely juggles the events...