Word: processing
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...Core must be abolished, but its abolition will take time to implement. In the meantime, there are several intermediate steps that the administration should take: increasing the number of departmental classes that count for Core credit, opening the petition process and reintegrating Core courses into the academic departments...
...Although Sharon is likely to jam the brakes on the frenzied peace talks of the weeks leading up to the election, his victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process, rather than its cause. The Likud leader had campaigned against what he saw as Ehud Barak's reckless handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, and has made no secret of the fact that he plans a major rewind of the peace process - his message to the Palestinians has been to disregard any offers made by the Barak government. Rather than trying to finalize a peace agreement, Sharon...
...irony of Sharon's victory, of course, is that most Israelis oppose his thinking - the fact that a man so widely loathed in Israeli society could be elected prime minister is a sign of Israel's deep disillusion with the peace process. Sharon didn't win as much as Barak lost. Too many of the prime minister's natural supporters stayed away from the polls, in protest over his handling of negotiations and the Palestinian uprising. Early polls indicate a turnout as low as one in three eligible voters, reflecting the usually active electorate's distaste for the choice...
...example, the idea of ordering Israeli soldiers in the West Bank to systematically break the arms and legs of Palestinian demonstrators is probably beyond even Sharon, right now; yet those were the precise orders issued in 1988 by Yitzhak Rabin, more commonly remembered as the architect of the peace process...
...voters are unlikely to accept the inevitable deterioration of Israeli-Palestinian relations under Sharon. And that will probably push Israel's voters back toward Barak's party in a year or two, and the cycle will begin anew. Good thing Arafat doesn't face reelection, because then the peace process would really be in trouble...