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...concept behind NAFTA - promoting economic growth by easing the movement of goods and services between the U.S., Mexico and Canada - had existed for years before it was born. President Ronald Reagan spoke of a North American agreement in his campaign in 1979, and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement had existed since 1989. NAFTA, which was launched January 1, 1994 and finally saw the last of its policies implemented on January 1, 2008, stipulates the removal of most tariffs and restrictions on trade between the three nations and codifies a wide range of agreements on agricultural, textile and auto...
...more than a half-century, Studs Terkel, who died on Oct. 31 at 96, had an ongoing conversation with America. This elfin-looking man, usually dressed in a red-plaid shirt, ventured out into the unfamiliar with tape recorder in hand and spoke with people whom he liked to call the etceteras of the world. In his presence, they mattered. He knew they had something to say--about race, about class, about work, about hope, about community. About America...
...occasion was a White House luncheon, hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, in Jan. 1968, near the zenith of the Vietnam War, just before the Tet Offensive. Kitt had given birth to a daughter in 1960, from her five-year marriage to real-estate developer William O. McDonald, and spoke more as a mother than as a criminologist. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the First Lady. "They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they...
...care of all the planning - every excruciating detail. With increased airline security and regulations, fee hikes, crowded planes, not to mention less expendable cash all around, traveling can be stressful for people, especially around the holidays. You can prevent unnecessary anxiety by preparing for every contingency. The couples I spoke with all said they were at least as grateful - if not more - for their partners' planning as for their paying. It seems that sometimes it's still the thought that counts...
This year marks the first time in Iraq that Christmas is an official national holiday. Congregants at Mar Yousif (St. Joseph's) said they felt hopeful about the future, and many spoke earnestly about their optimism for the country, now enjoying the lowest level of violence since 2003. But others noted that even as conditions in Baghdad improve, Iraq's persecuted Christian minority continues to stream out of the country. At Mar Yousif's service on Christmas morning, the head priest, Pios Cacha, who has seen his congregation dwindle from 1,200 families to 650 since the U.S. invasion...