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...talks were interrupted by the concluding days of Barak's campaign, but Erakat says his Israeli counterpart, Gilead Sher, who had teamed up with Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami, agreed they could be successfully concluded by April 30 if Barak remained in office. Israeli sources confirm the talks took place and say that had Barak been re-elected, they might have been able to conclude a deal in two months. Assuming, they add, the Palestinians really wanted a deal...
...thing is for sure: Harvard is not alone. Advising problems seem to be a general trend among selective schools. Groups that compare data from these schools, such as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), confirm that academic advising needs work...
...move of backhanded benevolence, Mansfield has decided to give students two grades: one low enough to confirm Mansfield's belief that no undergraduate possesses the infinite wisdom necessary to master the great works presented in his class, and one high enough to soothe Mansfield's fear that he is single handedly keeping hundreds of students out of graduate school and coveted I-banking jobs by lowering their GPAs. The latter grade will be burned onto students' transcripts; the former onto their egos...
...Court TV needs a tag line, they can call it "Survivor 1.5." In an apparent effort to confirm yet another of America's stereotypes about lawyers, Stacey Stillman has reacted to losing the first "Survivor," months after the fact, by suing. Specifically, Stillman alleges that two other contestants - Sean Keniff and Dirk Been - were spoken to by producers, which led them to vote her off the island, which in turn meant the contest was rigged. (Keniff has denied the charge; Been neither confirms nor denies...
...DREAMCAST DEFERRED In the latest war of the game consoles, first blood has been drawn. Last week a Japanese newspaper reported that Sega would cease production of its popular Dreamcast console in March. Sega has refused to confirm the report, insisting on its "global commitment to Dreamcast," but if true, the news would come as a bitter disappointment to the approximately 3 million U.S. gamers who bought a Dreamcast. Either way, Sega will continue to publish software for Dreamcast. It's tough all over: Sony's game division, makers of the elusive Playstation 2, reported losses of almost $120 million...