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...Last week's talks underlined the painful truth that, right now, Pyongyang is holding most of the cards. The two principals leading the talks with Pyongyang, Washington and Beijing, are seemingly hamstrung. China is scrambling to find a new approach to its wayward client after being blindsided by the North's nuclear test on October 9, which was undertaken despite a specific request for restraint from Chinese President Hu Jintao. Fearful that putting pressure on the North's fragile economy could lead to an implosion that would send hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming into China's north east, Beijing...
...exemptions. "All businesses should pay tax without exemptions," says José Luis Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, a leading business group. But for Calderón to do this on the scale needed would seem to mean taking on the powerful business interests that dominate his party (and hamstrung Fox), which played a decisive role in electing him in his razor-thin...
...beleaguered residents of Baghdad, this has become a familiar Green Zone farce. Beholden to the very militias he has vowed to crush, the increasingly hamstrung prime minister has forced U.S. troops guarding the city to don kid gloves when dealing with the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to the radical Shi'ite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, which has been blamed for much of the sectarian violence that kills an average of 100 Iraqis a day. And there is palpable frustration among U.S. soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad that every time they strike against the Mahdi Army, they are publicly...
...that an overwhelming majority of events on campus are organized and funded by student groups, the UC has rightly decided to concentrate its funds on student group operations rather than the failed all-campus events of the past. But the 25th Council’s budget should not be hamstrung because the 22nd campaigned on its desire to fund more all-campus events; the UC has every right to redistribute its budget in the way that it feels that will be most effective to serve the student body...
...over its inconveniences, few could do without it, and many quite literally need it to survive. We may lament its early closing time or uneven schedule, but without the ‘T,’ vast swaths of the public, not just we tight-budgeted students, would be hamstrung...