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...professors and administrators, who fought for the tunnel until the bitter end, said they considered it the lynchpin of the new CGIS facility, providing an essential link between related offices in the two buildings and connecting food services to the lecture halls and seminar rooms...
IRAN Like Turkey, Iran is concerned about postwar restiveness in its Kurdish population. It also dislikes the idea of a postwar pro-American government across its border. But Iran fought a bitter war with Iraq from 1980 to '88 and would gleefully watch Saddam Hussein fall. A defanged Iraq would also make Iran the undisputed kingpin in the gulf. Tehran could conceivably offer the U.S. the right to use Iranian territory to launch search-and-rescue missions, as it did during the war in Afghanistan...
...traditional Buddhist fable about a sorcerer drawn into a deadly love affair with a married woman. Woven together, the stories of Dondup and the sorcerer constitute a gently mocking and distinctly Buddhist lesson on the perils of human desire. The film's alternative title, says Khyentse Norbu, is The Bitter and the Sweet of Temporary Things...
...Clinton administration actively campaigned to elect Barak. The current Bush administration, however, agreed to keep the "road map" off the table during Israel's election season. And that may explain why, as Israel went to the polls Tuesday for an election whose outcome is all but given, one bitter peacenik Israeli commentator observed that the only vote that really counts belongs to George Bush...
...lost j1.35 billion last year, and the parent company was forced to string together a huge j3 billion loan just to keep operating. At least j3 billion in additional capital will be needed, according to analysts. Fiat recently announced a plan to cut at least 8,000 jobs, provoking bitter workers to block airports, roads and factories. In Agnelli's honor, though, workers have postponed several stoppages planned for the coming months. Agnelli had already sold a 20% stake in the auto company to General Motors for $2.4 billion in stock in 2000, in what turned...