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...which to dominate the Middle East. But as the White House launches a major Israeli-Palestinian peace effort that will span Bush's final year in office, it has to ask whether achieving a peace agreement is wishful thinking doomed to further failure in the absence of a broader accord with Iran...
...city. At the same time, nobody wants to see barbed wire cutting Jerusalem in two, as was the case from 1948 to 1967. Those in East Jerusalem look to the Israeli side for work opportunities and health care. The mere rumor that Israelis and Palestinians might reach an accord in Annapolis prompted a flood of applicants for Israeli citizenship, but only a lucky few will get it; most East Jerusalem Arabs have Jordanian passports. The rush was telling; however much Arabs may feel harassed by Israelis, they fear that annexation of East Jerusalem by the current thuggish Palestinian leadership would...
...overstated; It ought to only be employed in matters of proportional gravity. By this criterion, the 10-day strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which ended on Friday night, was misguided in its methods, if not its professed aims. Seven students and one professor participated in the strike which, according to their blog, came about in response to the appearance of a noose on the door of an African-American Columbia professor, the University’s plan to expand into East Harlem and the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. The strike called for “a more systematic...
...second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew G. Faust, owns a Honda Accord, though she says she prefers to walk to work...
...delegates who left the negotiating table discontented, though their dissatisfaction was most immediately explosive. If we can take anything from Andelman’s account of what was an extraordinary crossroads in history, it is that diplomacy is a messy affair. The hope is that future attempts at international accord will be less so, though it’s unclear from Andelman’s work how history can aid us in this endeavor.—Staff writer Anjali Motgi can be reached at amotgi@fas.harvard.edu...