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...does reveal that the war and resultant redrawing of the map 160 years ago can still spark a furor on both sides of the border. Thousands of critics accused the ad of being anti-American and took pains to defend the inclusion of the southwestern states into the union. "It is absurd to believe that the U.S. stole Texas and California since most inhabitants of the Southwest considered the 19th century Mexican government a totalitarian regime and wanted independence, and rightfully so, from Mexico," wrote a blogger who signed in as CPTLOU on the Absolut forum...
...This consistently creates a roadblock in international trade negations, as evidenced by the near failure of the trade liberalization talks in Doha over the issue of protectionist agricultural policies. By impeding the progress of international trade, the subsidy programs of the U.S. and other global culprits like the European Union end up creating a highly inefficient system that hurts everyone one from farmers in the developing world to American taxpayers. The ineffectual farm subsidies could potentially be justified if they promoted a more equitable distribution of resources. However, they seem to be doing exactly the opposite. While the subsidy programs...
...third member of the group, Sachs, is a labor law scholar who has been the Joseph Goldstein fellow and lecturer at Yale Law Schoool since fall 2005. Sachs is currently working on several articles about state and local labor law, new labor law regulation, and the “union wage gap.” In addition to clerking for Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after receiving his law degree from Yale, he served as a staff attorney at the Workplace Justice Project and assistant general counsel of the Service Employees...
...victories of South African President Thabo Mbeki's year-long backroom mediation between Robert Mugabe's regime and the opposition in Zimbabwe was an agreement that election results be posted outside polling stations. It was that concession to transparency by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) that prevented a centralized rigging of the March 29 general election, and allowed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) to unofficially claim victory in both the parliamentary and presidential elections. Now the fear is that those same lists will guide pro-Mugabe mobs on a campaign of violence...
...this profusion of diversity—from the Association of Black Harvard Women to the Harvard College Wisconsin Club, from the Christian Adventist Fellowship to the Secular Society, from the Radcliffe Union of Students to BGLTSA—belies an oppressive and soul-crushing conformity...