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...explain his peace plans to the new Bush Administration. "We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process," says Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is one of Sharon's messengers. The Sharon "security process" will probably aim to ink another interim accord and leave the issues that toppled Barak for much, much later. Says Gold: "To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes." Sharon might be forgiven for thinking of his coalition in the same way. Even after the biggest...
...underpinnings and its practical execution. The editors cite, for example, an absence of features linking courses in the same Core area (i.e.: Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" and Social Analysis 34: "Knowledge of Language"). What can this "radically different" duo possibly share? Simply that each fulfills a common aim of the courses in Social Analysis, namely to familiarize students with some of the central approaches to the social sciences and to do so in a way that gives students a sense of how those approaches can enhance their understanding of human behavior in the context of contemporary society. Those...
Michael Milken may have lost his bid for a presidential pardon, but some familiar wheeler-dealers that he either funded or fought in his heyday as Wall Street's junk-bond king have resurfaced, let back in the game by a receding stock market. And they aim to play. The names include Carl Icahn, Henry Silverman, Ted Forstmann, Irwin Jacobs and Henry Kravis--an '80s reprise that almost makes you want to cue the Ramones and slam dance...
Administrators have also been reluctant to explore the idea of "social norms initiatives" which aim to educate students about moderate drinking. Experts who favor such initiatives tend to argue that Wechsler's characterization of many college drinkers as binge drinkers polarizes campuses into heavy drinkers and abstainers...
...aim of the program, said event coordinator Camilla M. Catenza, is not merely to rely upon AIDS experts. Rather, it is to approach the AIDS problem from a variety of angles...