Word: ariel
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...Ariel Sharon loathes Yasser Arafat. If he could do it all over again, Sharon has said, he would have killed Arafat in Lebanon 20 years ago when he had the chance. And yet last week--with the number of Israelis slaughtered on his watch rising, the country sliding closer to war and its citizens sinking deeper into despair--Sharon tried to keep his enemy awake, as if Arafat were the only person in the world who could understand his troubles. Before dawn on Wednesday, Israeli Apache helicopters fired missiles into a building next to the office compound in Ramallah where...
...seem somewhat unlikely that a dinner conversation between a Saudi prince and a New York Times columnist could have such profound diplomatic consequences. (Abdullah's offer first came to light in conversation with the Times' Thomas Friedman.) Ariel Sharon was cajoled by the positive reaction of much of the Israeli political establishment - and, perhaps more importantly, by the same from the Bush administration - to take the offer seriously. EU security chief Javier Solana flew to Riyadh to discuss ways of promoting the initiative. And renewed talk of peace deals even appears to have sparked a mud fight between the Bush...
...Nobody's expecting Ariel Sharon to sign on to the plan. A champion of Israeli settlement outside the 1967 borders who fiercely rejected the Oslo agreements from the very outset, there's little for Sharon to like in Abdullah's proposal. But by pitching it directly to the Israeli people, he managed to generate significant domestic pressure on Sharon to take it seriously. (And it's worth remembering that the peace plan being touted by Peres is based on the same principle as Abdullah...
Contrast that with the so-called civil disobedience of which Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 writes in “Why Janitors Are Willing To Go To Jail” (Opinion, Feb 25). These janitors are not complaining of not having basic rights and freedoms; they are not protesting the injustice of being denied the right to vote or assemble or control their own fate. These janitors are protesting that their union’s negotiating team was not able to get them an additional $3 an hour pay raise in the midst...
...Ariel Z. Weisbard ’02-’03 claims that a group of janitors cannot “somehow coerce” Harvard because they do not have $18 billion or a media bureau. This statement ignores that the janitors are not alone; they have the force of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) behind them...