Doha Talks Are Drowning

Published April 26, 2006

If you've spent any time in Geneva in late summer, you'll appreciate why the World Trade Organization shutters its doors and windows for an extended bout each August.

With the Mont Blanc glacier shimmering in the distance and Lake Geneva alive with bathers and boaters, it can be difficult to focus on work of any sort -- much less the arcana of tariffs, subsidies and quotas.

During the...