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...control over basic regulatory powers, why are 34 of the nations in North and South America participating in the FTAA negotiations? First, most smaller nations, saddled with debt to the World Bank, IMF and northern investors, don’t have much of an option: with poorly capitalized markets, opting out of a trade agreement offered by the North would most likely precipitate a sudden fall in “investor confidence” among foreign investors, a corresponding crash in currency value and a decline in economic growth. It is easier for less-powerful nations to opt into trade...
While the league could opt to look the other way with regard to small drug violations, this may lead to more troubling effects. The declining maturity level of players entering the draft has definitely contributed to the problem, but there is something more deeply troubling about these players' general attitudes...
...Molière is famous for an elegant wit, Wilbur gives us only broad, limerick-like verse. This is by no means helped by the shortcomings of the production’s actors. There exist plenty of prose translations of Amphitryon; why director Darko Tresnjak didn’t opt for one of these remains a mystery. When not trying to read Wilbur’s poetry as one might read a Shell Sylverstein poem, the actors stumble through the lines as though they were written in prose. What seems like an attempt to stay true to the spirit...
...Transportation Department Secretary Norman Mineta is betting that plenty of Americans will opt for the latter. Wednesday, Mineta appeared before a congressional committee to outline his plan to hike up ticket prices for peak-hour flights - thereby, he hopes, reducing congestion around the nation's airports. While a form of this pricing structure already exists, thanks to simple market pressures, this formula would take much of the guesswork out of pricing flights, establishing a definitive ancillary expense for peak-hour flyers...
...race will mark the culmination of KSG students' efforts to co-opt some of Washington, D.C.'s political infighting for the Marathon's fundraising...