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Harvard will pay the money to Northeastern over three years, with $80,000 set aside for Dalton's salary as executive director of the institute. The settlement was reached late Monday after a 10-hour negotiating session mediated by an official with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD...
Dalton said in an interview yesterday she feels the settlement is a "vindication" of her complaint of discrimination...
Although many professors say the groundwork of last Monday's settlement is the most auspicious step they have seen in many years, they were quick to add that there are many technicalities which lie ahead for both the Israelis and Palestinians...
...principles did contain a bit of lofty rhetoric. The two sides pledged that they would "strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation." But they quickly got down to a fairly nitty- gritty discussion of procedures and timetables for Israeli military redeployment and Palestinian self-government, first in the Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho, then in the rest of the West Bank. The outcome of that test run is yet to be decided even in principle. Though both sides foresee an eventual Palestinian...
...those Americans for whom peace in the Middle East has been their life's work, the letdown is understandable. Midwives often endure depression as the fruit of their labors is enjoyed by others. Yet the wisest have always known that a settlement imposed by outsiders rarely holds, that the end of enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty...