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...forward,” most of his discussion—which attracted about 50 people—focused on the past. He called the Nakba a “self-inflicted wound” brought on by Palestinian leaders in the 1930s and 1940s, who, he said, refused to accept the existence of a Jewish state when they were offered a two-state compromise. “Had the Palestinian leadership accepted the two-state solution of 1938, they would have a very large Palestinian land on what is today probably 70 percent of Israel,” Dershowitz said...
...however, saw in the April Visiting Program an even greater opportunity: “Get them committed to my organization.” Or so I discovered when I spotted Maya D. Simpson ’11 in front of the Widener steps, exhorting every be-foldered passerby to accept one of her fliers. Not yet resistant to the temptations of a neon green slip of paper, a surprising number of prefrosh were stopping to listen...
...think it's one of the keys in life. It's to accept where you are today. I remember after my first child, it was six months and I hadn't lost very much of my weight. I was disappointed like all new mothers. My husband said, "Why don't you just accept how you are today? Go out and get some clothes so that you feel good about who you are and you can go to work and look good." And I did. There was a transformation that took place in that week. It was from that time that...
...found itself in this position before: down by a large margin late in the game with all the calls going against it as it stared down the wrong side of a series sweep. But this time, with the assistance of some Big Green relief issues, Harvard refused to accept its fate.Down 8-2 in the top of the ninth inning, shoddy Dartmouth pitching and defense combined with timely Crimson hits to bring Harvard back into the game, as the team strung together eight runs in the frame to steal the game from the Big Green.Dartmouth pitcher Bobby Steinsdoerfer failed...
...capture, was sentenced to 60 years in January. The FARC has made the pair's release a condition for the U.S. hostages' freedom. The U.S. has designated the FARC a terrorist group and can't negotiate with it. But U.S. sources say they're hearing signals the FARC might accept significantly reduced sentences for Sonia and Trinidad, which the two could win during their appeals. Says Alfredo Rangel, director of the Security and Democracy Foundation in Bogota: "If a U.S. appellate judge cuts Trinidad's sentence to, say, below 20 years, it puts the ball in the FARC's court...