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...agreement in its own hemisphere since ratifying NAFTA in 1994. The stumbling blocks have included politically potent U.S. labor and agricultural lobbies that believe unrestrained tariff cutting will undermine the hard-fought gains in living standards won by their members. Try to get U.S. trade negotiators to discuss eliminating sugar subsidies or lowering steel tariffs, and "they won't address the question face to face," complains Antonio Simões, the head of Brazil's trade negotiating team...
...Bush's level of engagement will be crucial, but will it be enough to overcome the opposition to free trade that exists even among his U.S. constituents? Jack Rooney, head of the American Sugar Alliance, a lobbying group for producers, explains that his members are all for free trade, but they worry that, without tough provisions on labor rights, the FTAA will turn the U.S. into a "dump market" for low-priced sugar. That kind of rhetoric is one reason no comprehensive trade bill has passed the U.S. Congress since the NAFTA accord. After that, the Clinton administration repeatedly failed...
...local sugar industry is uncompetitive and, because it's part of the European Union's single market, unprotected. The result: in 1999, Réunion's balance of trade was in the red to the tune of over $1.9 billion. At the same time the island has been experiencing a demographic explosion, with a birthrate almost double the European average. "Two worlds coexist here," says Paul Vergès, president of Réunion's regional council. "People who work - many of whom are overpaid colonial civil servants - and people who survive thanks to French benefit payments. Welfare protection...
...typical TV movie might have shown the match reverently as an Important Social Moment. But Anderson--whose Cheerleader was a pitch-perfect rendering of a modern tabloid circus--also captures the made-for-TV ridiculousness of its buildup, from Riggs' shilling for Sugar Daddy caramel pops to the opponents' theatrical, Muhammad Ali-esque bouts of insult and braggadocio. For these outsize personalities, the sideshow was the show. "Billie has often spoken of tennis as entertainment as well as a sport," says Holly Hunter, who plays King and starred in Cheerleader. "That aspect of the story was really well served...
...over seven years. Run DMC, who first introduced hip-hop in 1981 and incorporated their interpretation of rap into other genres of music, have returned, and they come with a conglomerate of stars to bolster the album’s prestige. While the likes of Kid Rock, Fred Durst, Sugar Ray, Nas, JD, and Jagged Edge may grace the album, the one thing most Run DMC fans hoped for is missing: Run DMC’s original sound. There is no doubt that this album has great songs; anything otherwise would be unworthy to carry Run DMC?...