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...candlelight vigil began just after 8 p.m. as Amy C. Offner ’01 spoke about the terms of the settlement which ended the 21 day sit-in on May 8. The agreement included a new committee to assess Harvard’s employment policies, a freeze on outsourcing and an early reopening of contract negotiations with the main custodial union...
According to Offner and official PSLM statements, the settlement represented a victory against the university on the living wage issue...
While Firestone admits that some of its recalled tires were defective, Ford denies any share of blame for the rollovers that involved Explorers. The car company has refused to join Firestone in settlement talks that could resolve more than 300 class-actions that have been consolidated in Indianapolis, Ind. Ford fears that a settlement could expose it to further legal action. The company has quietly settled some individual lawsuits, including a high-profile case brought by a Texas woman who was paralyzed last year when her Explorer rolled...
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza appear to be emerging as a point of contention between Israel and the U.S. Washington has called on Israel to freeze settlement activity, in line with the recommendations of a Jordanian-Egyptian cease-fire proposal and also the conclusion of the Mitchell Report into the causes of the current violence. Yet Israel is strongly opposed to a blanket freeze on settlement activity...
...return to peace negotiations, but also the appetite for it on either side. The Palestinian uprising has forged a unity among Israelis rarely seen outside of war-time, and they've lost all faith in negotiations with Arafat or any other Palestinian leader. Ideas such as a settlement freeze right now are dismissed as "rewarding violence," and the settlers are pressing the government for even harsher measures against Palestinians. Among Palestinians, too, nobody's talking about peace any more. And each new casualty on either side raises the political obstacles to the leaders returning to the negotiating table. The mutual...