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Professors, city officials and local teens gathered at Baker House, a settlement house here, to open a new after-school program sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies...
...command all the resources of incumbency. In any case, an American presidential election seems relatively unimportant in a world context that is, for the moment, abruptly changed. Arafat has succeeded in discrediting the peace process itself, an act of wanton perversity. The Palestinians had within their grasp the best settlement they will ever get - almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, the prospect of a shared Jerusalem. But perhaps in the Palestinian subconscious there remains a sense of injured honor that judges it must win back by force of arms land lost by force of arms...
Professor William W. Fisher, who teaches a course on intellectual property at the law school, said the University had a strong position going into trial and came out ahead as a result of the settlement...
...Harvard went into this discussion with a leg up--they probably didn't have to give up anything," Fisher said. "Most often, settlement arises because parties on both sides are reluctant to keep paying their lawyers...
...signed settlement was submitted in U.S. District Court yesterday and awaits final approval by Judge Reginald C. Lindsay...