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...year ago, I was working in Peru with a nonprofit in an attempt to rein in the country’s frenzy of illegal logging. Much of the work was productive and engaging; we motored down obscure Amazonian tributaries, held press conferences with indigenous leaders, and plead for support from American diplomats-cum-drug warriors...
...Baghdad), it was composed not by a freely elected assembly but by an unelected Convention presided by Giscard-d’Estaing. Like a rerun, it lays out already well-known principles of economic integration in the EU: severely limited powers for the directly elected European Parliament and free rein for the appointed European Commission to demolish obstacles to the competitive marketplace whatever their form. A multitude of other provisions prohibit harmonizing labor laws in the name of competition, underscoring the primacy of the unadulterated free market, while the possibility of European norms promoting social progress emerges as an afterthought...
...three children and Bhutto-but vowed to come back to prepare the way for her return. Lahore police officials said Zardari was being held in "protective custody." Party insiders say this is all part of a strategy by President Pervez Musharraf to keep Bhutto's party under a tight rein. They say the President has sent feelers to Bhutto that she may be able to return home-but only if she does not challenge him directly. Musharraf himself was enjoying a much more cordial homecoming on Saturday: he flew to the Indian capital New Delhi, where he was raised before...
...Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker hinted last month that the central bank will continue to apply downward pressure on rates in order to keep the economy moving. Volcker seemed to confirm that policy last week, when he stated that the Fed's open-market committee will keep a relatively loose rein on the money supply, a strategy that should keep plenty of cash available for loans to businesses and consumers...
...hard not to worry that the headiest gains have already been made. The most vocal doomsayer is Morgan Stanley economist Andy Xie, who has warned repeatedly?to the great misfortune of those who've heeded him?about an ominous oversupply of apartments and the government's halfhearted efforts to rein in speculation. For me, there's a particular terror of repeating my New York mistake: joining the herd moments before it runs off the cliff. But with Chinese incomes surging and well-paid expats flocking to Shanghai, I have little doubt that luxury apartments in prime locations are a great...