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...words, the Bush Administration was proffering a zero-penalty return to the previous nuclear deals Pyongyang had flagrantly broken-but with additional goodies, and a provisional free pass for any nukes produced since 2002. With this overture, the Bush team embraced the very approach it had once mocked as weak-kneed and "Clintonesque...
...Even if Chavez were to turn Caracas into Havana, there is little Washington could do. The U.S. depends on Venezuela as its fourth largest foreign-crude supplier, which all but precludes swinging the trade embargo stick Washington has used against Castro for 45 years. Political isolation is a weak bet, too. In a region with the world's widest gap between rich and poor, Chavez's gospel of Latin American self-determination has spawned a resurgent left and unusually coordinated anti-Yanqui sentiment, evidenced by the region's rejection of President Bush's hemispheric free-trade proposal. Warns Luis Vicente...
...region. Part of it was disappointment with Clinton, whose presidency seemed a coastal combination of Ivy League intellectualizing and Hollywood glitz. Clinton's decidedly humid empathy, his lack of personal discipline, didn't seem very Western, either. The primacy of the national Democratic Party--the party that was weak on national defense but strong on racial preferences, gun control and trade unions--proved a significant drag on Rocky Mountain Democrats running for local office. And so did the excesses of the more extreme environmental groups. "The Democrats came to be identified with a top-down, centralized approach to open-space...
...is Nicole Leibinger-Kammüller still smiling? The chief executive of Trumpf, a family-owned machine-tool firm in Germany, has watched orders from the critical U.S. market slow significantly in the past few months. But while the housing-bled U.S. economy has been sluggish, and the dollar weak, it's all proving quite manageable. "We can feel the U.S. slowdown, but it's not unsettling. There's no crash," Leibinger-Kammüller says. Trumpf's sales of its metal-cutting machines elsewhere--to Saudi Arabia, to Singapore and especially in Germany--continue to rack up double-digit growth rates...
...sold in the U.S., down from 25.5% in 1993. Yet there are significant regional differences. Jonathan Anderson, chief economist for Asia at Swiss bank UBS, says Singapore, Malaysia and Japan remain more vulnerable if tapped-out Americans start to shop less, given that their own domestic spending is relatively weak; by contrast, China's consumption is rising steadily...