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...abroad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington this month to push a plan that would harmonize investment and trade rules across the Atlantic. And the European Union and the U.S. recently got back together in a new and perhaps final attempt to salvage the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations. "We are in the endgame," says Peter Mandelson, the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner...
Amid concerns about a worldwide resurgence of trade protectionism, negotiators from the European Union and the U.S. met in Washington earlier this month to give new impetus to a stalled global trade accord. The World Trade Organization (WTO) suspended its so-called Doha Round last July because of disagreements between the U.S. and the E.U. over subsidies to their farmers, while countries from Australia to India complain that the ways both giants use such supports are a major trade distortion. There's not much time left for a new deal, since the special "fast-track" authority to negotiate trade agreements...
...biggest crowd at Harvard’s home rink for a women’s game since the Crimson drew 1,611 for a game back in February 2005. But it fell short of head coach Katey Stone’s hopes for the evening, the nice round sum of 2,000, and the program’s record of 1,921, established in January 2004.There’s one factor in common to these four-digit fests, one element pertinent to all of these memorable winter nights: the opponent. In a word, Dartmouth. The Big Green have...
...blocks away, actors rehearse a supermarket scene from the Ostravak show on an intimate round stage equipped with shopping carts. "I was not looking for him," the show's director, Radovan Lipus, shrugs. "I enjoy this game. Once it ends, something nice will be lost. Why couldn't it remain a secret? Who minds...
...Does he really think it's better than Lolita? Really?) Then with number 3 he goes straight off the reservation: Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. (What? By who?) The whole exercise is an orgy of intellectual second-guessing, which as we all know is infinitely more fun than the first round of guessing...