Word: pacts
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...unclear how long his smile will last. On the very day of Friedman's outrage, negotiators were predicting a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to put the final touches on a pact for self-rule in Hebron. After the shooting, that schedule was pushed back, but U.S. officials brokering the talks say it is still just a matter of time before an accord is reached. Such an agreement was already signed in September 1995 by Arafat and the previous Israeli government. But Netanyahu, after his election last May, insisted on reopening negotiations...
...studio. Hand-drawn feature animation was an art form it created and then nurtured for six decades, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 through the '94 smash The Lion King. Who could imagine that the empire would crumble? And why, when Disney had a distribution pact with Pixar, should the parent studio pursue CG animation? The box office answered both questions briskly: of the 10 top-grossing animated films since 1995, when Toy Story became the first computerized cartoon feature, all but one (Disney's Tarzan...
...going to be more effective in dealing with these combined challenges on energy, the environment, [and] climate change," he said, "if we do so in a way that takes account of mutual interests and incentives." Zoellick emphasized that the partnership isn't a substitute for the Kyoto pact but should be seen as a "complement...
...Environmentalists see less complement than insult?and some fear that this rival plan may deliver a fatal blow to the Kyoto Protocol. "The new pact will attempt to lure in other nations from the Asia-Pacific region and expand its influence," says Choi Seung Kook, deputy chief of the Green Korea environmental group, "until it is big enough to ignore the Kyoto treaty." Environmentalists point out that the agreement announced in Vientiane spells out no concrete goals to reduce global warming, sets no emissions targets for countries, and can't even be called a pact?the six countries merely endorsed...
...Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, says he sees a single advantage to the new approach: that the Bush Administration is finally acknowledging that global warming is real and that fossil fuels play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern of climate instability we're seeing now is what we predicted for the end of this decade. Look at what's happening in Bombay." According to environmentalists, the torrential rain...