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...attorney Brandt Goldstein skillfully weaves together two parallel narratives. The first is the compelling story of an idealistic group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guantánamo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...
...years ago in Cancn, Mexico, they collapsed after developing countries refused to open the door to their service industries until they got a favorable deal on agriculture. Trade ministers will gather in Hong Kong in December for another try. Again, the prospects aren't promising. The WTO boss, Pascal Lamy, said that he would have to delay a draft deal because "there is not a sufficient level of convergence...
That devil-may-care charm, plus what director Lasse Hallstrom calls "those eyes and that physicality," twigged the antennae of Amy Pascal, head of Columbia Pictures, who took him under her wing and laid out a buffet of starmaking career moves. In short order, he was Mel Gibson's son in The Patriot, and then--without so much as an audition--he was given the lead in A Knight's Tale. The posters proclaimed, HE WILL ROCK...
...gone nowhere. Two years ago in Canc?n, Mexico, they collapsed after developing countries refused to open the door to their service industries until they got a favorable deal on agriculture. Trade ministers will try again in Hong Kong in December. But the prospects aren't promising. The WTO boss, Pascal Lamy, said that he would have to delay a draft deal because "there is not a sufficient level of convergence...
...Hong Kong are being drastically scaled back. "Unless a miracle happens, I don't see anything emerging in Hong Kong. Nobody I know believes a deal can be struck," frets Jagdish Bhagwati, a specialist in the economics of trade at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the WTO, acknowledged as much this month when he said that too little progress has been made even to have a full draft text of a new trade accord ready for Hong Kong...