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...happy an agreement was reached but I have very little optimism that it's going to produce a just settlement," Graham said...
...firm Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke, all of whom were threatening to walk out after concluding an appeal of the Jones case dismissal. It was only when McMillan's husband, Bill, got involved in negotiations that a deal was brokered. Indeed, it came as a surprise to many that a settlement could be reached at all in the wake of midterm elections that put the White House in a buoyant mood. As an encore, perhaps the McMillans can drum up a book deal for their impoverished client...
Like the Oslo Accords before it, the Wye Memorandum delays discussion of such pressing issues as the status of Jerusalem and the settlements. Last Monday, Israel began to expand the settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a West Bank Palestinian city with a small presence of Israeli Jews. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also given the go-ahead on an extremely controversial Jewish settlement in Ras Al-Amoud in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem. Over the past 10 years, the Israeli government has implemented settlement plans that have drastically altered the population of East Jerusalem, which...
...nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does not understand this, the Congolese word batiza means both baptism and, pronounced differently, terrify. Worse...
EMANCIPATED. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU, 17, Olympic gold-medal gymnast; by a Texas state judge; in Houston. The 1996 champion was declared a legal adult in a settlement with her parents, whom she accused of squandering her earnings. The decision lets her seek a past accounting and make her own future deals...