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Roberts, who served less than two years, cited personal reasons for her departure...
...work for a corporation and you're in labor relations, it's usually pretty clear what the goals of a corporation are when you negotiate with a union," she said. "With the University, it's much less clear what the goals of the University are. In addition to negotiating with unions, you also have to negotiate with all of management [to find out] what they want their goals...
...Barak answering to increasingly reluctant constituencies and with both sides having postponed the most intractable aspects of their peace process for the very end, Ms. Albright may well get no satisfaction. "She?s trying to hurry both sides along by telling them they?ll have to live with something less than 100 percent of what they want," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller, traveling with the Secretary in the Mideast. "But large gaps remain between the two sides on the core issues, and each is accusing the other of refusing to compromise." Albright appears to have convinced both...
...lands, the Clinton administration may have to settle for medium-term damage control. The only relative certainty in the process is that the final outcome will be one that both sides accept grudgingly rather than gleefully. Perhaps that should be expected; after all, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is less of a marriage than a divorce...
...very odd coup," the BBC dubbed it in a headline that certainly seemed to capture the quirkiness of the ongoing putsch on the tranquil South Pacific island of Fiji. But taking the prime minister hostage appears to be becoming less odd and more par for the course in some of Britain's former Pacific island colonies. With no end to the Fijian standoff in sight more than two weeks after coup leader George Speight and a handful of cronies first seized Mahendra Chaudry and 30 other civilians as hostages, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands on Monday found himself...