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...PRDRE), it has become clear that the shady character stereotype prevails in a very real and insidious way. Though many students can talk the talk of cultural sensitivity on the issue, the underlying belief held by most people I have worked with remains: "Harvard students are too smart to commit rape or to be victims of rape...
...their defense, the associations claim that letting banks work with Amex and Discover would undermine a legitimate advantage--like forcing McDonald's to sell Burger King's fries. They say many banks have already pledged to commit more than 80% of their card business to one brand, thereby reducing their self-interest in the other and increasing competition. The defendants also wonder why Justice's proposal contradicts its expert witness, who testified that banks dedicated to one brand should be allowed to issue a small percentage of the other's cards...
...Stone said that one Brown administrator has even asked him to speed up the process because prospective presidents might not want to commit to Brown until they were sure they were not being considered for the Harvard post...
...defuse tensions by showing a willingness to cooperate with an international commission, led by the United States, that would investigate the claim that excessive force has been used; regardless of whether such claims are accurate, such cooperation would serve as a powerful sign that Israel is willing to re-commit to the peace process. Finally, we urge Barak resist calls to form a coalition government with Sharon and the conservative Likud Party, a government with which the Palestinians would not negotiate...
Time moves backward when it is time to move on. The dynamics may change, these murderous passions may exhaust themselves. (It is hard to believe that anyone's sense of injured honor would be appeased by joining a lynch mob to commit the most primitive of murders. But victims feel themselves to be justified in anything that they do.) In any case, maybe peace will become possible again after this fire has blown itself out. If it does blow itself...