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There was a sense of inevitability about the latest collapse in global trade talks. Negotiators, meeting in Geneva, had seemed optimistic a few days earlier, hopeful of a breakthrough in the seven-year-old Doha round. But as so often, hope was no match for the strength of entrenched positions. After the breakdown, there were the usual murmurings that trade ministers might get together again to salvage something from the wreckage. But most observers found it hard to escape the conclusion that, this time, Doha really was dead...
...This round of trade negotiations was supposed to be about "development," which made it ironic that the proximate cause of the failure was the claim by developing nations that not enough was being done to protect their farmers, like the Indian pictured above, from a surge of rich-world imports. But the precise rock on which the talks foundered - if it hadn't been one, it would have been another - was less significant than the evident power and influence that developing nations now have on the international economic agenda. Seven years ago, before Iraq, the subprime meltdown...
...Since the Bologna murder, Newsom has ordered a "top-to-bottom review" of San Francisco's sanctuary policy. But the re-examination of the law has sparked a round of finger-pointing between city and federal governments. The San Francisco Sheriff's Department claims it turned Ramos' personal information over to immigration officers at ICE - who say they never received any documentation and only heard of Ramos after his release. "In the last 18 months, the sheriff has turned over 1,100 suspected felons to ICE," says Ballard. "This is the first time that ICE has ever complained about...
CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUND 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Foreign Policy Agenda-Setting Margins of Error Economy ACTION Images of Barack Obama meeting with world leaders, military commanders and U.S. troops were accompanied by credible talk of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and a Bush Administration diplomat joining Iran discussions. John McCain faces the possibility of losing one of his few advantages: a firm focus on national security. With Obama on an international globe-trot, McCain was forced to spend the week reacting to the Democrat's every move rather than...
...week's winner is based on the relative importance of each fight and by how much the winner takes each round...