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...effort to address quality-of-life concerns voiced by its students, Harvard Law School (HLS) will slash lecture sizes and establish a House-like system of "law colleges" beginning next fall...
...targets in Gaza City, where Arafat was meeting CIA director George Tenet to discuss ways of ending the violence. By day?s end, Palestinian cities throughout the West Bank and Gaza were under siege by Israeli helicopters and tanks, the Prime Minister Ehud Barak was moving to establish a "national emergency" government with his hawkish Likud opposition. And Israeli and Palestinian spokesman were in agreement on one thing - the peace process was dead. Of course they typically hastened to add that it could be revived, but directed all blame for its demise at the opposing side...
...Martin: I never led myself into jokes. Also, I worked very hard to establish the tone in the opening paragraphs. Carl Reiner says that in the first scene of your work you set up the audience?s expectations. I also like to think that after the first paragraphs you forget about searching for jokes...
...ELTIS: Until late in the nineteenth century Africans, aided by epidemiology, had the power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade...
Venky calls this year's TECH programs an "experiment," attempting to establish a weekly forum for intimate discussions among a mix of people. TECH will boast visits from Dave Murphy '75, the director of technology for Sapient Corp., one of the leading website builders in the world; George Bell, CEO of Excite@Home; and Jeff Benzen, chief scientist at BMC software who will discuss Internet technology and site management...