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...also under pressure from the Europeans and moderate Arab states to coax Israel into meeting the Palestinians halfway. The Europeans, along with Russia and the United Nations - all members, along with the U.S., of the "Quartet" mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - see Hamas' decision to "respect" past agreements between the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish state as a softening of their death-to-Israel stance. And the conservative, Sunni-led Arab governments have let Rice know that if the U.S. doesn't make a concerted effort to end the festering misery in the Palestinian territories, it will be much more...
Currently, card checks are used in some unionization drives—Harvard security guards were unionized under this process—and according to supporters, these public petitions are somehow less open to intimidation. In the words of the AFL-CIO, card check “reduces conflict, coercion and harassment...
...Saltonstall professor of history, said. He stressed that he was comfortable with losing some students who do not actually want to study history.But many historians said they held deeper motives than simply protecting their department, noting that a failure to study the past would conflict with the mission of general education.“I think that students wouldn’t consider themselves educated if they only studied their own time period,” said historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor.She added that while at least half of the eight general education categories could...
...Jima duology through crisper cinematography and more heartfelt acting. Like many war films, it embraces the vivid atrocities of war, but unlike other members in the genre, “Letters from Iwo Jima” juxtaposes that graphic violence with honesty from both sides of the conflict, Japanese and American alike...
...literary thought, of philosophical thought, and the same for art, music, and science holds the most value to students because it places our modern world in context. Twentieth century novels can only be understood as the refinement of a literary genre that reaches back to Latin novels. The conflict between intelligent design and evolution does not make sense without an understanding of how Darwin’s system is a radical departure from the Aristotelian notion in which each species is a form of perfection in itself. The government of the United States cannot be understood without English Common...