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Prime Minister of Egypt from 1978 to 1980, Mustafa Khalil was instrumental in the negotiations between Israel and Egypt at Camp David that ultimately resulted in a peace accord in 1979, the first such agreement between Israel and an Arab nation. A government official for more than 50 years, Khalil paid a visit to Jerusalem in 1977, which set in motion the later meetings in the U.S. orchestrated by President Jimmy Carter. Following the historic peace process, Khalil stayed politically active until last fall, when he retired from his role as deputy chairman of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party...
...space that allows and enables people to be receptive to learning about themselves.” Advising programs focus first and foremost on opening up space in which students can explore possibilities. In that advising space, students must feel comfortable imagining themselves as something different and yet still in accord with their true self...
...dismayed reaction to Bertrand's text limited to the left of the political spectrum. Laurence Parisot, president of the Medef employer's organization which is signatory to the agreements with unions, also disagreed with Bertrand's intended power play. "It was hardly a month ago that an accord was concluded, and the accord and its terms should be respected today," Parisot said...
...turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity. But the main reasons why this is a bubble are more fundamental. Emissions trading has a future only if the Kyoto agreement, which runs out in 2012, is succeeded by an even more far-reaching and rigorous global accord. It is now clear this is not going to happen. And in today's harsher economic climate, governments are more likely to look for ways to scale back subsidies for renewable energy than to boost them. Nor are voters likely to be willing to pay the larger energy bills that...
...Another hindrance to any Olmert-Assad accord is the Bush Administration's almost visceral hostility toward Syria, which it regards as an auxiliary of the Axis of Evil. President Bush has made no secret of the fact that he regards Assad as a running dog for Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and just weeks ago, the Administration was trying to persuade the world that Syria was trying to acquire nuclear technology. Unless Washington signs off on it, no accord between Damascus and Jerusalem is worth the paper on which it is written...