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...part of the peace we make with promises. A just and durable peace must transcend this war of argumentation, biased generalizations and misleading and manipulative conclusions. We must transcend the limitations of the peace process, for which, as Danilewitz concludes, reality has set in, and pursue a durable settlement based on the shared principles of social equality, political justice, national dignity and individual respect. --Leila Suwwan de Felipe, '99 Waqaas Fahmawi, '99 Members, Harvard Society for Arab Students
...into doubt the rollout of GM's all-new Chevrolet minivan and other 1997 models. All production was halted in Canada last week after 28,500 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union walked out in a strike that has deprived some U.S. plants of vital parts. Without a settlement, analysts say, the company may have to close its 24 U.S. parts-and-assembly plants by the end of the month...
...virtually invented urban guerrilla warfare, in effect writing the Ur-text on hit-and-run terrorism on Dublin's jostling streets. His work influenced generations of rebels everywhere. Then, having brought the British to their knees--and to the bargaining table--Collins in 1921 helped to negotiate the peace settlement that established the Irish Free State but failed to win full independence for his country and acquiesced in the partition between the Protestant North and the Catholic South. This flawed agreement, which Collins persuasively argued was the best attainable at the time, led first to civil war, then...
DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday...
Harvard contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office, which began its own more extensive investigation, and the results of that investigation led to last week's settlement...