Word: barak
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...School over the past year. Aune and Dein said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday that they hope to focus on student concerns as the Law School enters a period of transition. Law School Dean Elena Kagan is leaving after six years to become President Barak Obama’s Solicitor General, several top faculty have departed to serve in the Obama administration, and the institution faces a slate of budget cuts as the University copes with a shrinking endowment. “We have to focus on continuing the legacy of Dean Kagan,” Aune said...
...convoy, Kerry was disturbed by the sight of Israeli security forces blocking trucks filled with pasta from entering the beleaguered territory. Pasta, the Senator was told by U.N. officials, wasn't defined by Israel as humanitarian assistance, prompting him to raise the matter with Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak - who then allowed the shipment in. Both Kerry and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have urged the Israelis to increase the volume of humanitarian assistance into Gaza, which remains under an Israeli blockade...
...LABOR E. Barak...
...moderate Livni in the hope of thwarting a Netanyahu victory. After the war in Gaza, the peace movement seemed pointless: the Palestinians were shattered, unable to govern themselves, much less negotiate a peace. It was telling that the best-known figure on the Israeli left was Labor's Ehud Barak, the man who had planned and executed...
...Israeli press has often repeated a quote from ex-President Bill Clinton, that Netanyahu "thinks he's the superpower and we are here to do whatever he requires." Few Israelis want to their new premier to jeopardize their country's special relationship with Washington. The more moderate Livni and Barak are seen as less likely to rile the Obama Administration...