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More than 60 professors gathered yesterday to discuss the need for more faculty advising and for caps on concentration requirements as proposed by Curricular Review committees...
...lost voters' trust and to tell Brown that he will stand down before the next election. March 2004 Blair allegedly tells Brown that he will stand down in the fall. May 2004 Less than a week after Brown and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott are said to discuss the succession in the car park of the Loch Fyne Oyster bar in Argyll, Scotland, Prescott says publicly that "[tectonic] plates appear to be moving" within the party. Summer 2004 Encouraged by loyalists in the Cabinet, as well as by the Tories' inability to capitalize in local and European elections under...
...honeymoon didn't last long. After Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian President on Jan. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon placed a congratulatory call to Yasser Arafat's successor and, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials, said he was "looking forward to meeting with you to discuss issues." Abbas responded that they would meet soon, "God willing." Four days later, the optimism was shattered, at least temporarily, when Palestinian militants killed six Israelis at a freight crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Sharon suspended ties with Abbas the next...
...both leaders, the crisis presents an early measure of whether their mutual respect and shared reputation for pragmatism can bring an end to the ruinous conflict between their peoples. There appears to be a reservoir of goodwill between the men that should eventually bring them together to discuss ways to overcome the violence. Sharon has long treated Abbas, the first P.L.O. member he ever agreed to meet, with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At peace talks in Wye River, Md., in 1998, Sharon refused to shake Arafat's hand and pointedly ignored him--but he chatted amicably...
...hard to see, and that makes it harder to help them. Twixters may look as if they have been overindulged, but they could use some judicious support. Apter's research at Cambridge suggests that the more parents sympathize with their twixter children, the more parents take time to discuss their twixters' life goals, the more aid and shelter they offer them, the easier the transition becomes. "Young people know that their material life will not be better than their parents'," Apter says. "They don't expect a safer life than their parents had. They don't expect more secure employment...