Word: processing
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Harvard's voices are too profound and various to hear and process all at once, just as the University itself is too large and diverse to hold in one steady glance. But a walk through the Yard the week before Commencement gave me a chance to listen to some of the voices I've ignored over the last four years, and I stopped longest at my favorite plaque, on the right wall of the gate opposite the Science Center, where Emerson's journal entry from a day in 1836 is inscribed in elegant lettering. The slate tablet speaks more quietly...
...kosher, but pork is a staple of democracy - and as the only democracy in the Mideast peace process, Israel is being reminded that it that can make life difficult. Prime Minister Ehud Barak suffered a setback in parliament Wednesday when a key coalition partner ditched his government and added the crucial votes that passed a bill requiring early elections. Although an early poll would almost certainly shut down the peace process for the year, the dispute was unrelated to any concessions Barak may be planning to make to the Palestinians or to Syria. The ultra-orthodox Shas party, the second...
...years under the hot lights of both Washington and Wall Street, and which now has to gear up for years more of the same. "Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft," says Cohen. "This process itself is inflicting significant damage." Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows all too well that in the tech business, winning or losing the case is almost beside the point. Microsoft may yet dodge the hatchet, eventually, but its days...
...problems plaguing the talks are so fundamental to the peace process that even another round of sequestered summitry with President Clinton may struggle to overcome them. The premise of the Oslo Accord had been that the topics on the table this week were too fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader...
...With Arafat threatening to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state by the end of the year, and Barak warning that Israel would retaliate with unilateral annexation of some West Bank 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...