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Bobbing and dipping above the heads of the crowd of 50,000, the plain wooden coffin was borne through the narrow streets of Nablus, the largest town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the front of the funeral procession, among mourners with drums and cymbals, fluttered the black, white, green and red flag of the Palestinians. Groups of youths, their faces hidden by kaffiyehs, flashed the V sign. Here and there among the hundreds of black-bordered portraits of the dead man were pictures of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The deceased: Zafer al Masri...
...should be tied!" they shouted. "No Hussein! No Assad! Only the P.L.O.!" After winding through the town for nearly two hours, the procession approached the blue-domed Haj Mazuz al Masri mosque, which had been built by the slain mayor's uncle. There, the body was removed from its coffin, passed overhead from hand to hand into the courtyard of the mosque, and buried in a stone tomb covered with a marble slab...
THERE IS ANOTHER side of the coin, so to speak, as those institutions which do not fare well in the merit review process naturally prefer Congress' direct grant scheme. Charles Coffin, director of government relations at Northeastern University, voices the complaint: "Frankly, for too long peer review has been a pipeline for the haves to continue to have and the have-nots to be shunted aside." Northeastern received a grant in the same bill as Cornell...
...Coffin wrongly assumes that all universities have an equal right to government grants. Receiving research funding is a privilege, not a right. Obviously, institutions have an equal right to compete for awards, but no right to expect and demand a guarantee. While the government may provide aid to academic institutions by confering tax-free status, research grants are not awarded so that everyone can get a piece...
...Scott Neilson's spike nailed the Engineers' coffin, lifting the Crimson to a 15-9 victory...