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...Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Arafat loyalists were fighting other opponents of the peace deal with Israel, this time dissidents within Fatah. While infighting in Lebanon is an old phenomenon, in the Gaza Strip, it was something new. "All the factions had sworn that they would never resort to violence," said Ziad Abu-Amr, an expert on Islamic fundamentalism at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. "Now taboos have been broken. The glass has been shattered. So we are waiting for another round. Are the conditions of the + first round still present? Yes, and more...
Eliot did not reveal the purpose of his absence in his annual report, but a letter dated January 17, 1901, places him in Bermuda. "This island is the best winter resort I have ever visited... always withdrawn and reposefully," he writes...
...hope this reaches you at whatever resort exists in heaven (or the other place) for former Presidents of the U.S. Not knowing how closely you watch events in the world you left behind, I want to bring you up to date on the consequences of an ideal you so energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have...
Gregoire thinks that the council should resort to price discrimination--charging more at council events for students who didn't contribute. For example, students who withhold their $20 would not be able to get subsidized tickets for council-sponsored concerts. Gregoire's amendment to that effect was ruled out because of the confidentiality guaranteed to those who withhold their fees. But we endorse Gregoire's idea that students who make their contributions be given membership cards to present at council functions. The council could preserve confidentiality if it would only operate like any other club...
...last resort we go ahead and file a formal complaint," Kosberg said. "We'd set up a fact-finding conference and allow the accused party to respond...