Word: agreement
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...What happens to the Wye agreement...
...Radcliffe signed an agreement with Harvard marking completion of its original first purpose of gaining access to Harvard for women. Without directly acknowledging that this mission was now concluded, Radcliffe delegated all responsibility for undergraduate women's education to Harvard. But, contrary to the terms of the original charter, it did not turn over its funds or property to Harvard. Ignoring the second purpose of the charter, the 1977 agreement stated that Radcliffe would keep its assets and exist an an independent institution to carry out programs "to promote the higher education of women...
...UNSCOM spy debacle may have a silver lining after all: It offers U.N. diplomats a way out of the post-Iraq bombing stalemate. ?The U.N. has to reach agreement with Iraq within weeks over the return of arms inspectors, and they know that Baghdad won?t allow UNSCOM back in its current form,? says TIME reporter Stewart Stogel. ?The spying fiasco will force the U.N. to substantially restructure UNSCOM.? And that may be the key to finding an agreement with Baghdad...
...back on, sort of -- 50 or so games starting in February. Appropriately, neither side is claiming victory. "Did we blink? I guess we both blinked," players' union head Billy Hunter said Wednesday. Said NBA commissioner David Stern, after predicting that the NBA's Board of Governors would accept the agreement Thursday: "I will say that I am elated that we will be playing basketball this season." The terms of the deal indicate that both sides gained concessions, with the owners eking out a win at the negotiating table. But TIME senior business editor Bill Saporito says that nobody won this...
...right, says TIME reporter Jamil Hammad: "The Palestinians believe that it's Netanyahu who abandoned the Wye and Oslo agreements. In fact, it's the people of Israel who are pushing this. The hopes of the Palestinians that a Labor-led government would make things better have been dashed by the rise of the right." Netanyahu says that he is still committed to the Wye agreement, but pressures from his right mean he keeps adding new conditions to its implementation -- pressures that will only intensify as he looks for votes. The political realities of the next four months leading...