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...signs suggest that somebody tried to use stealth tactics to win a battle that might be lost if waged in the open. "This should trouble the entire Harvard community. Now that this issue is in the public spotlight, the HAA or President Rudenstine should do the right thing and abandon this potentially divisive commemorative effort altogether. Patience Singleton, HLS President, Harvard Black Law Students Association
...propriety rather than lack of interest. As Camille is lured by the freedom and magic of Petra's world, she is shocked by the desires which have been stirred within in her. When pressure from creditors threatens to force the circus to leave town, Camille must decide whether to abandon the only type of existence she has known in order to pursue her true desires...
...Sedet and Rabin courageously dared to initiate peace when no one else would, both were awarded the Nobel prize for their commitment to a peaceful agreement and both have been killed by their own countrymen, namely extremists who resented the fact that Israelis and Arabs were finally attempting to abandon their longtime policy of hatred and war. The Boston Globe even published a picture of Sadat's daughter, Carnelia, who currently lives in the United States, publicly mourning over Rabin's tragie death and comparing his fate to her father's fate 14 years ages...
...UNITED NATIONS HAS ACHIEVED innumerable successes throughout its existence. To abandon it in the face of challenge is simply a waste of 50 years [UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23]. PATRICK M. FERGUSSON, Vancouver, Canada Via E-mail...
...assassination is not the work of a lone lunatic. As the peace process marched on, Prime Minister Rabin at its helm, radical rightist elements began to abandon any pretense of respecting the authority of the Labor government. Rabin the traitor--not only to the Jewish state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that...