Word: annexation
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...quite rosy today, but that the book might provide a good chuckle with its history of our “foresisters who had it way rougher than [us] back when ‘Cliffie bitch’ was a common term and Radcliffe was ‘the Annex...
...Glafcos Clerides and Rauf Denktash said they would meet three times a week over the next few months in the hope of hammering out a power-sharing deal that could stitch back the divided parts of Cyprus. Both leaders agreed to keep meeting until June. Turkey has threatened to annex the north of the island if Cyprus joins the E.U. without agreement by both parties...
Your report "Arafat's Dance of Death" graphically portrayed the horrors of the escalation of terrorist violence in Israel. However, it was quite unfair to mention Arafat's rejection of Israel's offer for a final settlement at Camp David without explaining Israel's demand to annex occupied territory where it has bulldozed Palestinian houses and brought in settlers. The placement of settlers in isolated communities in view of those whose land was taken is a prescription for unending conflict. Years ago Israel obtained a lasting peace with Egypt by returning all captured land and removing its settlers...
...Arafat "irrelevant" and cut all ties with him that dominated Arab headlines this week. And Arab papers see Ariel Sharon rather than Yasser Arafat as the problem. Egypt's Al Ahram blames the crisis on a deliberate plan by Sharon to "topple Arafat, reenter areas under PA control and annex large swathes of the West Bank." Editor Ebrahim Nafie warns that bombing PA buildings makes it impossible for Arafat to implement a crackdown on terror suspects and forge an anti-terrorism consensus among Palestinians. He berates Washington's support Sharon, but has harsh words for Hamas, too: "As religious...
What, then, is a College to do? I propose ending DeWolfe’s affiliation with the exclusively undergraduate Houses altogether. DeWolfe provides desirable housing, and undergraduates should be allowed to live there, but the buildings should become an independent residential complex, rather than an annex for the river Houses. Like the co-op, which currently falls under the umbrella of Dudley—the non-randomized House with which GSAS and off-campus undergraduates are affiliated—DeWolfe should become a location where upperclass students can elect to live. Every year there will be students who prefer...