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Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to raise awareness on global warning. We get reaction from Guardian columnist and leading environmental campaigner George Monbiot. [includes rush transcript]

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We begin our show with this morning's announcement of the 2007 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This is Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The UN's climate panel groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods.

Since Al Gore's failed bid for the presidency in 2000, he has emerged as a leading climate campaigner. He won an Academy Award for his 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth." George Monbiot joins us on the line from England.

• George Monbiot. Widely read columnist for the Guardian of London and a leading British campaigner for the environment. His latest book is called "Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning."

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AMY GOODMAN: We begin with this morning's announcement of the 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

JAN EGELAND: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared in two equal parts between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, and Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr., for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

AMY GOODMAN: The UN's climate panel groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods. Since Al Gore's failed bid for the presidency in 2000, he's emerged as a leading climate campaigner. He won an Academy Award for his 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth.

George Monbiot is a widely read columnist for the Guardian of London, a leading British campaigner for the environment. His latest book is called Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. He joins us now from Britain.

George Monbiot, your response to the Nobel Peace Prize winners this year today?

GEORGE MONBIOT: Well, I am delighted, particularly for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This must be the most maligned institution on earth, in that it's a very conservative scientific panel which chooses only the science which is rock-solid, and yet it's often portrayed as an insane radical organization trying to overthrow civilization as we know it. And it's fought a long, hard battle for the science to be heard, and that battle is now being rewarded.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And, George Monbiot, in announcing the award, the Nobel Prize committee indicated that it was seeking to actively make clear the importance and the dangers of continued global warming. Your response to their message?

GEORGE MONBIOT: Well, they have done so, but they have done so by drawing only on the science which can be absolutely trusted. In other words, the science which ends up in their reports is the science of consensus, and they exclude things even which have a very widespread scientific backing; but where there's some legitimate dispute, they will exclude that from their reports. So this is an organization which has been as rigorous as you possibly can be in documenting what is happening to the world's climate. And yet they are constantly pilloried and attacked by rightwing climate change deniers as if they're doing the opposite. And I am very, very glad that they have been recognized in this way.

AMY GOODMAN: And, George Monbiot, the significance of Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his record after he was vice president and his record as part of the Clinton administration?

GEORGE MONBIOT: Well, I have to say that I feel slightly more equivocal about this, because while I think he's done some very good work indeed in publicizing climate change, his record on peace has not been quite so good. And this is, after all, the Nobel Peace Prize. And in common, unfortunately, with most of the Democratic Party, he has been quick to endorse and slow to condemn unwarranted attacks on other nations, and therefore I do feel uneasy about his receipt of the prize.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you very much for your quick response. Today's news, again, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: Al Gore, the former vice president of the United States, and the UN organization on climate change, the Panel on Climate Change.

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Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

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Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, outside her home in London today.

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By MOTOKO RICH and SARAH LYALL

Published: October 11, 2007

Doris Lessing, the Persian-born, Rhodesian-raised and London-residing novelist whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.

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Doris Lessing at her home in London in 2002.

Announcing the award in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." The award comes with a 10 million Swedish crown honorarium, about $1.6 million.

Ms. Lessing, who turns 88 later this month, never finished high school and largely educated herself through voracious reading. She has written dozens of books of fiction, as well as plays, nonfiction and two volumes of autobiography. She is the 11th woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ms. Lessing learned of the news from a group of reporters camped on her doorstep as she returned from a visit to the hospital with her son. "I was a bit surprised because I had forgotten about it actually," she said. "My name has been on the short list for such a long time."

As the persistent sound of her phone ringing came from inside the house, Ms. Lessing said that on second thought, she was not as surprised "because this has been going on for something like 40 years," referring to the number of times she has been mentioned as a likely honoree. "Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all."

After a few moments, Ms. Lessing, who is stout, sharp and a bit hard of hearing, excused herself to go inside. "Now I'm going to go in to answer my telephone," she said. "I swear I'm going upstairs to find some suitable sentences, which I will be using from now on."

Although Ms. Lessing is passionate about social and political issues, she is unlikely to be as controversial as the previous two winners, Orhan Pamuk of Turkey or Harold Pinter of Britain, whose views on current political situations led commentators to suspect that the Swedish Academy was choosing its winners in part for nonliterary reasons.

Ms. Lessing's strongest legacy may be that she inspired a generation of feminists with her breakthrough novel, "The Golden Notebook." In its citation, the Swedish Academy said: "The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship."

Ms. Lessing wrote candidly about the inner lives of women and rejected the notion that they should abandon their lives to marriage and children. "The Golden Notebook," published in 1962, tracked the story of Anna Wulf, a woman who wanted to live freely and was, in some ways, Ms. Lessing's alter ego.

Because she frankly described anger and aggression in women, she was attacked as "unfeminine." In response, Ms. Lessing wrote, "Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling, experiencing came as a great surprise."

Although she has been held up as an early heroine of feminism, Ms. Lessing later disavowed that she herself was a feminist, for which she received the ire of some British critics and academics.

Ms. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in 1919 in what is now Iran. Her father was a bank clerk, and her mother was trained as a nurse. Lured by the promise of farming riches, the family moved to what is now Zimbabwe, where Ms. Lessing had what she has called a painful childhood.

She left home when she was 15, and in 1937 she moved to Salisbury (now Harare) in Southern Rhodesia, where she took jobs as a telephone operator and nursemaid. She married at 19 and had two children. A few years later, feeling imprisoned, she abandoned her family. She later married Gottfried Lessing, a central member of the Left Book Club, a left-wing organization, and they had a son.

Ms. Lessing, who joined the Communist Party in Africa, repudiated Marxist theory during the Hungarian crisis of 1956, a view for which she was criticized by some British academics.

When she divorced Mr. Lessing, she and her young son, Peter, moved to London, where she began her literary career. Her debut novel, published in Britain in 1949, was "The Grass Is Singing," which chronicled the relationship between a white farmer's wife and her black servant. In her earliest work Ms. Lessing drew upon her childhood experiences in colonial Rhodesia to write about the collision of white and black cultures and racial injustice.

Because of her outspoken views, the governments of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa declared her a "prohibited alien" in 1956.

When "The Golden Notebook" was first published in the United States, Ms. Lessing was still unknown. Robert Gottlieb, then her editor at Simon & Schuster and later at Alfred A. Knopf, said it sold only 6,000 copies. "But they were the right 6,000 copies," Mr. Gottlieb said by telephone from his home in New York. "The people who read it were galvanized by it, and it made her a famous writer in America."

Speaking from Frankfurt during its annual international book fair, Jane Friedman, president and chief executive of HarperCollins, which has published Ms. Lessing in the United States and Britain for the last 20 years, said that "for women and for literature, Doris Lessing is a mother to us all."

Ms. Lessing's other novels include "The Good Terrorist" and "Martha Quest." Her latest novel is "The Cleft," published by HarperCollins in July. She has dabbled in science fiction, and some of her later works bear the imprint of her interest in Sufi mysticism, which she has interpreted as stressing a link between the fates of individuals and society.

Lynn Bryan, a friend of Ms. Lessing, spent some time at the author's home on Thursday as flowers arrived, Champagne was served and the phone rang off the hook. Ms. Bryan said she asked Ms. Lessing why she thinks she won the prize this year.

"'I don't know,'" Ms. Bryan said the author replied. "'I am genuinely surprised because they rejected me all those years ago.'"

The phone rang again, Ms. Bryan said. It was another friend, whom Ms. Lessing was to meet that evening at a Chinese restaurant. She apologized and told him she couldn't. She had just won the Nobel Prize.

Motoko Rich reported from Frankfurt and Sarah Lyall from London.

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Thomas' 'Jurisprudence of Extremism' If nothing else in recent weeks, we know where Justice Clarence Thomas stands on Anita Hill and the value of a Yale law degree. But given his day job, we might ask, "Where does he stand on constitutional issues such as, say, free speech?" As it so happens, a First Amendment Center symposium published this week, Justice Thomas & the First Amendment, explores that question in depth, with contributions from a who's who of First Amendment scholars. In a forward, Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine law school dean-to-be, sums up what he sees as the symposium's stark conclusion: "Justice Thomas is the most radical member of the current Supreme Court and likely one of the most radical justices in history in his desire to overrule precedent and dramatically change the law. Virtually every essay describes an area where Justice Thomas, in concurring or dissenting opinions, has urged major departures from prior decisions and doctrines." In his contribution to the symposium, an essay on the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case (notably, one that never mentions that phrase),  Loyola Law professor William D. Araiza calls Thomas' body of work the "jurisprudence of extremism." Chemerinsky agrees and adds the observation that Thomas' First Amendment rulings add up to be neither consistently pro- or anti-speech. Three qualities they do share: disregard for stare decisis, a preference for bright-line rules and adherence to originalism. Read more in this broad-ranging collection of essays that also includes a bibliography, an analysis of his voting record on key topics and his answers to First Amendment questions from his confirmation hearings. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) The Four Laws of Lawyer Marketing We are a profession bound to uphold the law, but do you know the laws of lawyer marketing that will help ensure your success? Fear not, for legal-marketing consultant Tom Kane has compiled the four laws of successful lawyer marketing in a series of posts at The Legal Marketing Blog. Kane draws on an article written by another legal marketer, Trey Ryder, in which Ryder, in turn, draws on lessons from the book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. As Kane sums them up, the four laws of legal marketing are: The Law of Perception. Create visibility and credibility for yourself. The Law of Leadership. It is better to be first than to be better. The Law of the Category. Be first in your category; if you can't, then create a new category. The Law of the Mind. Being first gets you nowhere if nobody perceives you as first. It all seems to boil down to establishing yourself as a leader in your field and then making sure that potential clients know you as a leader in your field. Given that, I am surprised that Kane never mentions blogs. For any lawyer striving to uphold the laws of lawyer marketing, is there a better tool than blogging? Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Law Profs Dissent on Tutu Speech A decision by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu from speaking on campus has drawn criticism from many corners of the globe -- including the university's own law school. As reported at Minnesota Lawyer Blog, 18 members of the law school's faculty, led by professor Thomas C. Berg, co-director of the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy, sent a letter to university President Fr. Dennis Dease asking him to reconsider his decision. Reportedly, Dease believed that an on-campus appearance by the noted South African cleric and human rights activist would be hurtful to some Jewish students and faculty members because of controversy over remarks Tutu is alleged to have made about Israel in a 2002 speech (remarks that, according to this piece, he never said). Berg's letter says: "To reject a distinguished speaker based on worries that his words may cause hurt or offense to some is entirely at odds with the search for truth that should characterize a Catholic university. Speech taking positions on controversial subjects will often be offensive or hurtful to some people. Nevertheless, a Catholic university should be willing to open itself to such speech -- and criticisms of that speech -- in order to learn the truth." The law school is seeking permission to host Tutu on its own if the university does not change its mind, the blog reports. Meanwhile, in another post at the same blog, Mark Cohen, the editor of Minnesota Lawyer newspaper, calls on the university to reconsider its decision. While the decision may have been driven by good intentions, he says, the university is "doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons." A commentary in the Star-Tribune offers a similar critique, acknowledging that Dease's decision was "motivated by a genuine desire to avoid hurting Minnesota's Jewish community," but calling it wrong and unethical nonetheless. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Careers Number Crunching: Money v. Happiness The conventional wisdom is that Biglaw associates make piles of money but are miserable, while their smaller-firm counterparts earn much less but enjoy a better quality of life. At the blog Empirical Legal Studies, Indiana University School of Law professor William D. Henderson stood that conventional wisdom against available data from NALP, the ABA's Young Lawyers Division and other sources, and, guess what -- the conventional wisdom is pretty much right. The data show that over the eight-year spread of the typical associate track, Biglaw associates will earn $631,000 more in salaries than associates at firms of two to 25 lawyers and $524,000 more than those at firms of 51 to 100 lawyers -- and that does not include bonuses. But nearly half those Biglaw associates will spend much of those eight years working at least 60 hours a week, while roughly 40 percent of those in firms of one to four lawyers work 40 or fewer hours a week. Henderson sums it up this way: "[T]he bottom-line is this: 60 hours is a long workweek. For many people, eight years of this pace may not be worth the $631,000 (2-25 lawyer shop) or $524,000 (50-100 lawyer firm) pay differential. After all, these years are the prime of many lawyers' lives.  Solving this work-life balance issue is the holy grail for this up-and-coming generation of young lawyers. On the one hand, this effort seems quixotic. On the other hand, as Wayne Gretzky used to say, you miss 100% of the shots you never take. On one level, we can all admire the temerity of youth." But Henderson is quick to suggest that not all large firms are necessarily harsh places to work. As it turns out, the more elite the firm, the longer the working hours and the less desirable the working conditions. Ironically, he adds, it is the students who leave law school with the broadest array of options who choose these harshest firms, opting for prestige and money over quality of life. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:23 PM

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Legal Blog Watch Thomas' 'Jurisprudence of Extremism' If nothing else in recent weeks, we know where Justice Clarence Thomas stands on Anita Hill and the value of a Yale law degree. But given his day job, we might ask, "Where does he stand on constitutional issues such as, say, free speech?" As it so happens, a First Amendment Center symposium published this week, Justice Thomas & the First Amendment, explores that question in depth, with contributions from a who's who of First Amendment scholars. In a forward, Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Irvine law school dean-to-be, sums up what he sees as the symposium's stark conclusion: "Justice Thomas is the most radical member of the current Supreme Court and likely one of the most radical justices in history in his desire to overrule precedent and dramatically change the law. Virtually every essay describes an area where Justice Thomas, in concurring or dissenting opinions, has urged major departures from prior decisions and doctrines." In his contribution to the symposium, an essay on the "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case (notably, one that never mentions that phrase),  Loyola Law professor William D. Araiza calls Thomas' body of work the "jurisprudence of extremism." Chemerinsky agrees and adds the observation that Thomas' First Amendment rulings add up to be neither consistently pro- or anti-speech. Three qualities they do share: disregard for stare decisis, a preference for bright-line rules and adherence to originalism. Read more in this broad-ranging collection of essays that also includes a bibliography, an analysis of his voting record on key topics and his answers to First Amendment questions from his confirmation hearings. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) The Four Laws of Lawyer Marketing We are a profession bound to uphold the law, but do you know the laws of lawyer marketing that will help ensure your success? Fear not, for legal-marketing consultant Tom Kane has compiled the four laws of successful lawyer marketing in a series of posts at The Legal Marketing Blog. Kane draws on an article written by another legal marketer, Trey Ryder, in which Ryder, in turn, draws on lessons from the book Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. As Kane sums them up, the four laws of legal marketing are: The Law of Perception. Create visibility and credibility for yourself. The Law of Leadership. It is better to be first than to be better. The Law of the Category. Be first in your category; if you can't, then create a new category. The Law of the Mind. Being first gets you nowhere if nobody perceives you as first. It all seems to boil down to establishing yourself as a leader in your field and then making sure that potential clients know you as a leader in your field. Given that, I am surprised that Kane never mentions blogs. For any lawyer striving to uphold the laws of lawyer marketing, is there a better tool than blogging? Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Law Profs Dissent on Tutu Speech A decision by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu from speaking on campus has drawn criticism from many corners of the globe -- including the university's own law school. As reported at Minnesota Lawyer Blog, 18 members of the law school's faculty, led by professor Thomas C. Berg, co-director of the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy, sent a letter to university President Fr. Dennis Dease asking him to reconsider his decision. Reportedly, Dease believed that an on-campus appearance by the noted South African cleric and human rights activist would be hurtful to some Jewish students and faculty members because of controversy over remarks Tutu is alleged to have made about Israel in a 2002 speech (remarks that, according to this piece, he never said). Berg's letter says: "To reject a distinguished speaker based on worries that his words may cause hurt or offense to some is entirely at odds with the search for truth that should characterize a Catholic university. Speech taking positions on controversial subjects will often be offensive or hurtful to some people. Nevertheless, a Catholic university should be willing to open itself to such speech -- and criticisms of that speech -- in order to learn the truth." The law school is seeking permission to host Tutu on its own if the university does not change its mind, the blog reports. Meanwhile, in another post at the same blog, Mark Cohen, the editor of Minnesota Lawyer newspaper, calls on the university to reconsider its decision. While the decision may have been driven by good intentions, he says, the university is "doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons." A commentary in the Star-Tribune offers a similar critique, acknowledging that Dease's decision was "motivated by a genuine desire to avoid hurting Minnesota's Jewish community," but calling it wrong and unethical nonetheless. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Careers Number Crunching: Money v. Happiness The conventional wisdom is that Biglaw associates make piles of money but are miserable, while their smaller-firm counterparts earn much less but enjoy a better quality of life. At the blog Empirical Legal Studies, Indiana University School of Law professor William D. Henderson stood that conventional wisdom against available data from NALP, the ABA's Young Lawyers Division and other sources, and, guess what -- the conventional wisdom is pretty much right. The data show that over the eight-year spread of the typical associate track, Biglaw associates will earn $631,000 more in salaries than associates at firms of two to 25 lawyers and $524,000 more than those at firms of 51 to 100 lawyers -- and that does not include bonuses. But nearly half those Biglaw associates will spend much of those eight years working at least 60 hours a week, while roughly 40 percent of those in firms of one to four lawyers work 40 or fewer hours a week. Henderson sums it up this way: "[T]he bottom-line is this: 60 hours is a long workweek. For many people, eight years of this pace may not be worth the $631,000 (2-25 lawyer shop) or $524,000 (50-100 lawyer firm) pay differential. After all, these years are the prime of many lawyers' lives.  Solving this work-life balance issue is the holy grail for this up-and-coming generation of young lawyers. On the one hand, this effort seems quixotic. On the other hand, as Wayne Gretzky used to say, you miss 100% of the shots you never take. On one level, we can all admire the temerity of youth." But Henderson is quick to suggest that not all large firms are necessarily harsh places to work. As it turns out, the more elite the firm, the longer the working hours and the less desirable the working conditions. Ironically, he adds, it is the students who leave law school with the broadest array of options who choose these harshest firms, opting for prestige and money over quality of life. Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on October 10, 2007 at 12

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Building on a successful investment strategy For Chile, international integration is not a passing fashion. It is a strategic project that determine the country's capacity for ongoing growth and development. And foreign investors have a key place in this project. Chile has many natural advantages. Our long, narrow country is an immense source of wealth, ranging from the vast, mining-rich Atacama Desert to the fertile agricultural lands of central and southern Chile and the imposing glaciers and water resources of Patagonia. The Chilean people are also a key asset. Developing our human capital is one of the pillars of our growth strategy. Experience shows that we score well on this point. Educational coverage is extremely high; some of Latin America's best universities and business schools are in Chile; and, according to a National Census, over 16% of the population, up from just 9% a decade ago, has a higher-education qualification. But if smaller economies, like Chile are to take full advantage of their natural wealth, they must integrate into, and compete on, international markets. That is imperative for successful development. Chile no longer seems as remote as it once did. Over the last decade, modern transport infrastructure, advanced logistics and world-class telecommunications services have helped to demolish the barriers of distance between our country and the rest of the world. And, because Chilean firms have expanded internationally, our businesspeople and executives have the advantage of hands-on experience of markets around the world. At the same time, Chile has successfully opened its own markets to foreign investors. They are not only welcomed and assured of freedom from discrimination, but also find an attractive business environment, anchored in Chile's political and social stability, its solid macroeconomic fundamentals and its tradition of integrity and transparency. Today, as a result of these policies, Chile is widely identified as an obvious first choice for foreign investors seeking to expand into Latin America and, indeed, other world markets. This is, we believe, one of the keys to the future of foreign investment in Chile. A growing number of overseas companies are already using Chile as a base from which to export to - or provide services for - regional markets. But we are not resting on our laurels. Instead, the Chilean Government is actively seeking to encourage this new trend by, for example, eliminating tax barriers to the use of Chile as a platform for investments in other countries. Chile is also deeply committed to free trade. Since 1990, we have developed an expanding network of free trade agreements, including Mexico and Canada. The trade agreements signed with China, the European Union, the United States, South Korea and the European Free Trade Association, as well as the Strategic Transpacific Economic Association Agreement with New Zealand, Singapore and Brunei, have not only opened up many more foreign markets to Chilean goods; they have also led to more dynamic cultural and social exchange among these countries and international cooperation in the area of science and technology. These agreements, combined with others in Latin America - including Chile's associate membership of the MERCOSUR bloc - have helped businesses in our country to escape the constraints of a small domestic market. Instead of targeting only Chile's 15 million inhabitants, they now enjoy privileged access to over 800 million consumers around the world, a figure that will rise to almost 1.2 billion, once our country's free trade agreements with the United States, South Korea and the EFTA come into force. But competitiveness is not only the result of export diversification and international integration; it also requires the joint efforts of all members of society, not just the government and the business sector. That is the only way to tap into a country's full potential and, by promoting social cohesion, that is also what the Chilean Government is seeking to achieve. The progress in the quality of education, a new unemployment insurance scheme, a reform of criminal justice and a plan to improve the efficiency and response time of healthcare services point in this direction, as do the efforts to deepen democracy and strengthen civil liberties. In a bid to guard against a digital divide within the country, the government is also sponsoring a network of public Internet centers and is also, for example, opening school computer laboratories, out of class hours, to communities, especially in poor and rural areas. Since 1990, the number of Chileans living below the poverty line has halved, but much still remains to be done. In 2002, the Chilean Government launched a targeted program that seeks to reach those who still fall outside the state welfare net and, through this initiative, which benefits 225,000 families, eradicating extreme poverty. In addition, a number of adult education programs and workplace training schemes - in line with Chile's policy of building labor skills - provide our less-qualified citizens with opportunities to better their employment prospects. Chile offers a secure environment for its business investors and their employees. A low crime rate is just one of the elements that make up a high quality of life, which is widely appreciated by foreign investors. And Chile not only has an open economy, it is also open to social and cultural change. Achieving stable and sustainable progress is not easy. But, through its steady economic growth and the increasing participation of its citizens in the benefits of that growth, Chile has shown that it is possible. We know that, for all these reasons, Chile is attractive to foreign investors. But we also know that, in this new century, building on Chile's advantages is crucial for the future of our country's relationship with the rest of the world. That is why we are constantly seeking to improve the business environment we have created.

 

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Free Trade Agreements-CHILE

CHILE

Free Trade Agreements

China
United States
Canada
Mexico
South Korea
Central America
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)

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Association Agreements

UE
New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, and Chile (P4)

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Complementation Agreements

Argentina
Bolivia
Colombia
Ecuador
Mercosur
Peru
Venezuela

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Our Country

¿QUIEREN INVERTIR EN CHILE?   Our Country

We are pleased to welcome you on your visit to view  our country both as friends and in a professional capacity. We say as friends because you accepted our invitation to look at us closely, to become acquainted with the variety offered by our geography and to seek the eye-catching points that make us attractive to the rest of the world. And in a professional capacity because you come to Chile backed by your experience and a profound knowledge of an industry that has turned into an engine of  devolpment in today's economy. Nowadays people want to travel, they want to visit different places and they want to learn about other cultures. Tourism is no longer a privilege enjoyed by a few but rather the wish of many who want to  discover by themselves how others live and what they are like. When people know each other better, distrust among them decreases. We are building a global world in which tourism faces major challenges. Chile wishes to grow by enhancing its presence in the international arena. Having our tourism industry grow is also part of this project and your visit will help us make headway toward this aim. We welcome you warmly and wish you a happy and fruitful sojourn in Chile. A Snapshot of Chile   The Territory   The Indigenous People   A Cultural Explosion   Territorial organization

 

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Legal Blog Watch

Legal Blog Watch

Technology Changes the Law Sometimes technology, not ideology, drives change in the law. And in the case of DNA evidence, technology has done what the Constitution and the due process clause never could: lead to systemic changes in state laws to allow convicted defendants to reopen closed criminal cases and seek access to DNA evidence for testing through procedures that did not exist at the time of trial. The trend is discussed in this New York Times article, Exoneration Using DNA Brings Change in Legal System. The article reports that as the result of the exoneration of more than 200 convicts through use of DNA evidence over the past decade, states are now providing easier access to DNA evidence. From the article: All but eight states now give inmates varying degrees of access to DNA evidence that might not have been available at the time of their convictions. Many states are also overhauling the way witnesses identify suspects, crime labs handle evidence and informants are used. At least six states have created commissions to expedite cases of those wrongfully convicted or to consider changes to criminal justice procedures. One of them, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, will hold a hearing this month on remedies for people who have been wrongfully convicted. Personally, I've never understood the reluctance of prosecutors and courts to allow access to DNA evidence for testing that was not technologically possible at the time of trial. Many times, DNA evidence will corroborate the outcome, thus increasing the credibility of the conviction. And where the DNA evidence exonerates a defendant, then an innocent person can be freed -- a result that I'd assume all players in the criminal justice system would want to achieve. In any event, my policy argument doesn't matter as much anymore, and that's fine -- because 200 exonerations based on DNA evidence is the most powerful argument of all. Posted by Carolyn Elefant on October 1, 2007 at 02:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Lawyers Seek Six Figures for Refund Over Discredited Memoir Remember James Frey, the author of the memoir A Million Little Pieces, a purported "real life" memoir about Frey's drug use that Frey later admitted he'd fabricated? Disappointed readers subsequently filed a class action against Frey and his publisher, Random House, seeking a refund for the cost of the book, and they'll be getting a small refund check. Now, as The Smoking Gun reports here, only 1,345 of 4 million purchasers have actually sought a refund. No matter; the lawyers who brought the suit are still seeking $788,333.33 in legal fees for their efforts. Evan Smith, one of the attorneys in the case, noted that it cost about $335,000 to publicize the proposed book refund settlement in newspaper advertisements. I'm not sure how Smith can justify the extent of the fees sought. If only a few customers sought a refund due to poor publicity, then  Smith should not be permitted to recover the full costs of what was, apparently, an unsuccessful advertising initiative. On the other hand, if few customers sought a refund just because it wasn't worth their time -- or they enjoyed the book, notwithstanding that it was a false account, then wouldn't Smith's fees be disproportionate to the benefit achieved? What's your view? Posted by Carolyn Elefant on October 1, 2007 at 02:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) News From the First Monday in October It's the first Monday in October, which brings plenty of news and commentary about the Supreme Court to the blawgosphere. In this article, Tony Mauro discusses the first case of the term, Washington State Grange v. Washington Republican Party (consolidated with State of Washington v. Washington Republican Party. According to Mauro, the case is the first of three voting-related cases scheduled for the docket that invoke the First Amendment. And if you're interested in reading other news predictions for the coming term, check this post from Blog of the Legal Times that rounds up several news stories discussing what's ahead. SCOTUS Blog also has some First Monday news -- the creation of a Supreme Court wiki that will serve as an added resource on the Court. Posted by Carolyn Elefant on October 1, 2007 at 02:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Blawg Review #128 This week's Blawg Review #128 travels overseas, hosted here at Trinity College graduate student Daithi Mac Sithigh's Lex Ferrenda. Over in Dublin, this first Monday in October has significance other than it does here; it's the first day of class for the new crop of undergrads. So, Mac Sithigh chooses a back-to-school theme to organize the highlights of the past week in the blawgosphere. Even if you're not a new student, this week's comprehensive Blawg Review #128 is worth studying. Posted by Carolyn Elefant on October 1, 2007 at 02:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Legal Blog Watch

Legal Blog Watch

Supreme Court Adds 17 Cases to Its Calendar This morning, the Supreme Court announced the 17 new cases that it's added to its calendar for the new term, as reported here at SCOTUS Blog (to review the petitions seeking cert and case dockets, visit this link). The cases include some interesting issues, such as the constitutionality of requiring voters to show a photo ID before they may vote; the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection where the procedure poses a risk of pain and suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment ban  on "cruel and unusual punishment"; and a Fourth Amendment case involving an unlawful search under state law that Volokh conspirator and Fourth Amendment guru Orin Kerr is interested in. We'll be covering many of these cases here at Legal Blog Watch, so stay tuned ... Posted by Carolyn Elefant on September 25, 2007 at 02:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Law Firm Salaries: If You Can't Beat Them, Retreat From Them When New York firm Simpson Thacher announced its decision to raise starting associate salaries to $160,000, most law firms raced to jump on the bandwagon. But as this article (9/25/07) reports, one midsize New York law firm, Duval & Stachenfeld, has taken an opposite strategy: It pays starting associates $60,000 -- or $100,000 below the going rate. Salaries don't stay flat, however, and by their third year, D&S associates can expect to match salaries of their counterparts at top firms. There are several reasons behind D&S's approach. From the article: The idea is that [the firm] will attract first-years from second-tier schools or less-competitive students at the top schools. Within two years, about half of those junior associates will prove themselves and hop on the gravy train of the top scale. Meanwhile, the hefty pay for mid-level and senior associates makes Duval & Stachenfeld an attractive option for unsatisfied laterals from top firms. In addition, lower pay enables the firm to hire more associates and to mitigate clients' concerns that they're subsidizing the cost of training high-paid associates. Given the realities of the the current legal market that my colleague Bob Ambrogi posted on yesterday, there are probably no shortage of applicants for positions at D&S, even with the lower pay scale. Moreover, it's a win-win situation for the firm, which gets the benefits of cheap labor by lawyers who are grateful for an opportunity to have a job at all. Question for readers: Why aren't more firms taking this approach? Posted by Carolyn Elefant on September 25, 2007 at 02:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) What Google Docs Means for the Law Wired GC has two posts on Google Docs that merit review. (Full disclosure: My husband works for Google, though not on this product, and even my sixth-grade daughter uses Google docs to edit a newspaper that she runs with some friends outside of school). If you're not familiar with Google Docs and how it works, this post from Wired GC offers a neat and simple explanatory video. But why should you care about Google Docs or other open source, collaborative applications, for that matter? Wired GC responds here. He writes that Google Docs may make some users question why they've been paying so much for complicated collaborative software that Google has made available for free. And by making this application available at no charge, people become more comfortable with "software-as-a-service." Finally, Wired GC concludes: Getting back to the law, note what is happening here. When you make working together easier, you don't just do things better. You also do fewer things faster and therefore much cheaper. Much of the business model of the legal industry is based upon doing too many things slower. Have you or your firm started exploring these kinds of collaboration tools? And is Wired GC right -- is the availability of fairly robust open source applications making lawyers rethink more costly models? Posted by Carolyn Elefant on September 25, 2007 at 02:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Blawg Review #127 This week, trial lawyer and jury consultant Ann Reed hosts Blawg Review #127 at her blog, Deliberations. And the verdict on her voir dire-themed Blawg Review is unanimously favorable, as evidenced by this litany of positive commentary and trackbacks. Even the sometimes curmudgeonly David Giacalone of f/k/a/ offers a positive review of Reed's Blawg Review, finding Reed "not guilty" of thematic excess.  Posted by Carolyn Elefant on September 25, 2007 at 02:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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'Environment: The UN Conference on Climate Change Part II'

'Environment: The UN Conference on Climate Change Part II'
by Juliana Rotich


- Thematic Plenary- Adaptation. Facilitator is Dr. Asha-Rose migiro Deputy Secretary General
Co chaired by HE Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands and H.E Mr. Fakhruddin  Ahmed the Honourable Chief Advisor of the Non-Party Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

I will be doing short form blogging in the form of tweets in the newly created channel for Global voices: http://twitter.com/GlobalVoicesEnv Short summaries of what the leaders are saying in the 2nd plenary session "The challenge of Adaptation" (Note:session began at 3pm, I will tweet it from 4pm onwards).

Note that Part I is posted here.

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