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...formal announcement is expected by Monday, which would formally end the nine-month search for a successor to outgoing University President Neil L. Rudenstine, who will step down in June...
...although the plans for the center have no formal ties to Harvard's CHRP, Carr said he does see a possible role for University professors to assist in his new endeavor...
...concern over Sharon's hawkish reputation. As much as Sharon aides vow to get tough with the Palestinians, they're also careful to emphasize that he wants dialogue. But that dialogue is unlikely to be a continuation of the Oslo peace process: While he's undertaken to abide by formal agreements signed by his predecessors, he's made abundantly clear that he has no intention of picking up negotiations where Barak left them, and that the Palestinians should disregard the offers made at the negotiating table by the previous government. In other words, the idea of a comprehensive and final...
...most dramatic setback suffered by Kosovo's Albanian nationalists was probably the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence for Kosovo dimmed even further. That, and President George W. Bush's campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern...
...last year fudged the issue, leaving it to the Bush administration to make a decision this coming April. Plainly, the Chinese want to do their utmost to prevent the enhancement of the island's defenses - after all, Beijing periodically threatens to invade whenever the "rebel province" makes noises about formal independence, and the Aegis vessels would make that threat even more implausible. (Military experts believe that even now China lacks the power to dominate in the air over the Taiwan Strait, without which an invasion becomes almost impossible...