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...destruction of Israel.” Israel and its allies persisted in this strategy in spite of repeated indications, reported faithfully in the New York Times, that Hamas, like the Palestine Liberation Organization of Yasser Arafat before it, was looking for face-saving means to alter its position and accept a two-state solution...
...code of conduct for the House of Lords states that members "must never accept any financial inducement as an incentive or reward for exercising parliamentary influence." But peers are unelected, don't receive a salary, and are free to pursue outside income; around 140 have "outside consultancies." There are few sanctions against peers who transgress the rules: they cannot be removed from the house, but merely "named and shamed." That, says Baroness Royall, the Labour leader of the Lords, is "bananas." It's hard to disagree. MPs convicted of criminal offenses or found to commit acts deemed improper...
Andersson said that the main selling point in convincing nominees to accept the award is the list of notable Hollywood figures that have received the award...
...list was arranged according to yield—the percentage of students who accept a college’s offer of admittance...
...take into consideration—factors such as the number of times students visit campus, whether or not those individuals have interviews during that visit, and whether or not applicants cite a school as their first choice, all of which determine how likely students are to accept admission offers...