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While members of the university's technical and clerical union and the dining hall workers' union continued to shuttle food to the protesters inside Mass. Hall, around 20 members of SEIU 254, the local union chapter for custodial staff, added their voices to those outside the building...
First, the FTAA, like NAFTA, would govern not only disputes between nations but also disputes between investors and nation-states. Corporations gained for the first time in Chapter 11 of NAFTA an institutional mechanism through which suits can be filed against foreign governments...
...initial text was approved by negotiators in nine distinct trade sectors last December: a forbidding, 1,200-page document in which virtually every word is surrounded by brackets that indicate a lack of full agreement on the substance. "About the only things that aren't bracketed are the chapter titles," says a negotiator. The draft includes proposed tariff reductions on at least 7,000 products, from orange juice to rolled steel. As a map of negotiations still to come, it promises to address such cutting-edge issues as electronic commerce, intellectual-property rights and telecommunications, along with provisions to ease...
...Innovators series forges ahead this week with a chapter on healers, who range from France's Jean-Pierre Barral, an osteopath with a technique he calls visceral manipulation, to yoga expert Patricia Walden. The section boasts a crisp new look created by our sister act of Marti and MaryAnne Golon. Art director Marti finds inspiration in the animated typography of movie-title sequences and websites. "Using different fonts, with varying weights and colors, I can make your eye bounce around the printed page." Picture editor MaryAnne aims to match the style of the photography to the spirit of the subject...
...latter chapters of the book finally provide what a straight history textbook wouldn’t: a “how-it-really-works” look at the Supreme Court. Rehnquist describes how cases are chosen, how they are argued,and how decisions are made. As in the first chapter, Rehnquist offers more details than the reader can possibly absorb. For example, conferences to discuss the cases take place on Wednesday afternoon and Friday conferences begin at 9:30 a.m. for most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular...