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...interesting that there have been no demonstrations either for or against Megawati so far. Unlike the time when Suharto was overthrown, people now look at it as the usual shadow puppet game of the elite moving around and exchanging cabinet posts. For ordinary people, they see that Wahid didn't work, and now they'll try Megawati. But without any conviction that things will be any better...
...course, the revised Kyoto Accord hammered out in three days of intense negotiations in Bonn is but a shadow of its former self. It has reduced the average cut in greenhouse gas emissions required by the year 2012 from 5.2 percent below 1990 levels to 1.8 percent below 1990 levels, and has incorporated a number of the negotiating positions previously advanced by the Clinton administration, such as crediting nations for maintaining large forests to serve as "carbon sinks" to soak up the offending gas. (And all this in response not to pressure from Washington, which had removed itself from...
...East Asia is awash with cash and interest rates are at record lows almost everywhere. Yet borrowing and spending are?China excepted?feeble. Governments and companies still insist on borrowing in dollars. Regional central banks still accumulate huge piles of high-priced greenbacks, even though U.S. indebtedness casts a shadow over the currency's long-term value...
...make the story seem contemporary, Lawrence introduces a medicine cabinet full of new pharmaceuticals and shaves more than 20 years off the women's ages (when Shadow opens in 1987, the women are roughly the same age they were when the first book ended in 1965), but she does little else to update Susann's formula. Anne and Neely still self-medicate, stage comebacks and sleep around, but the whole thing feels dutiful, even predictable. In her thinly veiled sketches of the wealthy and well known, Susann was one of the first to wallow in the lifestyles of the rich...
...Under the menace of this decision, French doctors, whenever the slightest shadow turns up on the sonogram, will advise: Abort. Perfect children are mandated by law. Parents will be considered irresponsible if they bring forth a specimen less than perfect. Think of the charming effect this decision would have if it were applied in those many countries around the world where a fetus that turns up with a vagina rather than a penis is considered to be defective...