Word: trading
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...power in giving up power," Bill Bradley is saying, "and I didn't expect that." The former NBA star and three-term Senator from New Jersey explains that after he left public office in 1996, he kept right on talking about his signature issues--race relations, global trade, economic stress, campaign-finance reform--"and people would come up and say, 'So you really believe the things you've always said? You weren't just trying to manipulate us for our votes?' And I'd say, 'No, this is what I feel.'" Bradley gives an impish grin...
What he did do was observe a rather unremarkable truth during his address to a schoolhouse in Uganda at the end of March: "Going back to the time before we were even a nation, European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Unlike the nebulous details of the Lewinsky scandal, everything Clinton spoke of at that point is factually accurate. Slavery did exist, and slavery was wrong. White Americans, as members of a governing body which sanctioned and exploited slavery, have intentionally benefited from the consequences. That is wrong as well...
While employees of the restaurants offer no guarantees regarding the truth of their signs--one Jae's employee says a 90-year old customer had died while eating at her restaurant--the signs do seem to capture in stark terms the trade-off between health and happiness...
...especially with a Cold War-era game plan: Washington's resolution condemning Cuba was slapped down at a U.N. human rights forum yesterday, but the news from Europe was better -- the EU is dropping its World Trade Organization complaint against the Helms-Burton Act. Europe is fiercely opposed to the law's provision for U.S. sanctions against foreign firms doing business with Cuba. "The administration knew Helms-Burton is bad policy but felt trapped into signing it," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Very little has been done to actually implement the law, and the President has repeatedly waived...
...over "Asian values," democracy and the value of constructive engagement should ring hollow when compared with the simple, sincerely expressed wishes of the Burmese: they do not want tourists as long as tourism undermines their democratic aspirations. And with the current level of military control over the burgeoning tourist trade, visitors to Burma cannot but hurt the people and land they are visiting. In any case, I cannot imagine that staying in hotels built with slave labor makes for a pleasant holiday...