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Both temporary faits accompli also seem borne of an objectionably cloistered decision-making process that we hope the University avoids in the future. The imminent choice of a new Corporation member offers the opportunity both to include more people in high-level Harvard decisions, and also to diversity the Corporation by adding a woman or a member of a minority group...
...Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. His lieutenants hardly sound hopeful that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last week, "requires presidential leadership to ward off the disasters down the road. I really don't know if Ronald Reagan sees that...
...College's storage fait accompli is especially upsetting in that the need to cut back on storage is by no means obvious. Even Martha Coburn, associate dean of the College, has said the only tangible costs involved in storage are those of paying a custodian to supervise storage in the spring and removal in the fall. That price certainly seems worth paying...
Margaret Thatcher's government may deserve mild blame for allowing the impasse to arise, for it had long been aware of the potential for trouble over the Falklands. But faced with the Argentine fait accompli, the British were right to respond immediately, imposing a 200-mile blockade around the islands and demanding that Argentina withdraw its troops below the nations discuss the Falklands future sovereignty...
...weeks, but it proves just how strongly committed the Corporation is to scrapping the four-year-old ban, the only concession ever made to students on the issue. Further, it suggest that only the angriest of protests by the ACSR has a hope of reversing the Corporation's fait accompli...