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There are plenty of minefields ahead before agreement is reached on a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). In the wake of the U.S. economic slump, many of the hemisphere's vulnerabilities are more apparent than ever: wildly uneven income distribution in Latin America; a dramatic financial crisis in Argentina; rising levels of crime and pollution; deterioration of such institutions as public education and health in many nations. No agreement is possible without a meeting of the minds between Brazil and the U.S., and that did not seem probable on the eve of the Quebec City summit. Even...
Ironically, Palestinians and their supporters seem to see precisely the opposite bias in the media. They claim that the terms in which the news is presented are uneven, degrading to Arabs, not harsh enough for Israel's current hawkish leadership and representative of an implicit bias against Islam in the desire to paint the conflict as a religious war. They are certainly entitled to their interpretations. Yet to discern the world media's consistent and deliberate slander against Israel, one need not interpret terminology either way: It is evident simply in what the press chooses to report and to omit...
...Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim--compete with male rappers by using sex as a weapon. Eve has found a balance: she's tough enough to run with the big dogs and sensitive enough to hug a small one. Her 1999 debut, Let There Be...Eve--Ruff Ryders' First Lady, was uneven, but it established her persona--sexy but not pornographic, in your face but somewhat introspective. Now Eve feels she has improved. "On my first album I was like, 'Whatever you say,'" she says. "This album I was like, 'Hold up. I'm not doing that.' This is more...
Stories of alcohol crackdowns permeate the College, making students--particularly first-years--wary of uneven enforcement on the part of some administrators...
...sued them the next. He wanted to count every vote, but countenanced his supporters' efforts to get thousands thrown out. He vowed to honor voter intent, a goal that lost some of its nobility as the nation saw how many kinds of guesswork that would take. So uneven was Gore's footing in the public relations war that one often quoted adviser made a practice of instantly deleting the daily talking points the campaign would send him by e-mail...