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...deeply suspicious of Mandelson, viewing him as Blair's man in Brussels. That could make it hard for him to persuade Chirac and other leaders that a further liberalization of trade is in their interest. "There's a much higher risk of only a modest outcome to the Doha round," because of antiglobalization fears in Europe, says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics. Others are more pessimistic. Kenneth S. Rogoff, a former research director at the International Monetary Fund, says: "One has to be very concerned that we will see total trade paralysis over...
...Koreans are the overlooked victims of the Korean peninsula's nuclear crisis. It has been nearly one year since North Korea walked out of the six-party talks, the multilateral forum that was created to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons ambition. Last week, there was another round of unproductive exchanges: after a meeting with North Korean officials in New York, the U.S. State Department announced that the North would be returning to the negotiating table. A day later, North Korea denied making that commitment. North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan told an ABC television-news...
...must it be when a party's best candidate for the presidency is into his third year of retirement - and quit politics after a humiliating rout in the last presidential race? Lionel Jospin, 67, the former French Prime Minister who lost the 2002 presidential battle in the first round, has emerged as the favorite to lead the 2007 challenge for the presidency by France's Socialist Party (PS). That result comes after two leading PS contenders tangled. Laurent Fabius, 58, was ousted as the party's second-in-command last week in a move led by PS first secretary Fran...
Head counselor: David Beckham Campers: Soccer buffs ages 8 to 15 can learn to bend it like Becks at his year-round camps, opening in Carson, Calif., in the fall Best reason to pack: Mess-hall sightings of Mrs. Becks, a Spice Girl...
Neither captain catcher Schuyler Mann nor junior infielder Zak Farkes—who was selected last year in the 39th round by the Boston Red Sox—was selected by a team...