Word: deal
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...Congress effectively did do by passing the Iraq Liberation Act last year--can it still work with that leader? It is probably a faux-pas beyond even the smoothest of diplomats to simultaneously vow to remove a nation's leaders and then invite them over for tea and deal-making. Perhaps this is the most important lesson from the corrosive experience of Iraq, we must be careful not to cut connections with powerful despots, for they may be our only chance to help their nation's people. As we stare into the eyes of Slobodan Milosevic today, and the leaders...
According to a deal approved by the Radcliffe Board of Trustees Sept. 2, Radcliffe College will dissolve--and the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will be born--at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1. On that day, Harvard College will assume full responsibility for all female undergraduates...
Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 called the imminent agreement "essentially the same" as the April deal...
...ensure security in East Timor has raised the clamor for an international peacekeeping force to replace Indonesian troops. Jakarta has thus far resisted the idea, at least until the Indonesian parliament recognizes East Timor's independence ? which will take at least a month, and is far from a done deal. Nobody is advocating that peacekeepers fight their way in, which means that right now the international community is raising pressure on Indonesia to accept such a force. Australia would take the lead in any peacekeeping operation, and already has 4,500 troops on alert. Most of the remainder...
...begin the task in Pristina. In particular, he is hoping he can get the Kosovo Liberation Army to cooperate with the U.N. That may be tough. K.L.A. insiders say Holbrooke's word doesn't mean as much as that of State Department spokesman James Rubin, who helped broker the deal that gave the K.L.A. a political boost. U.S. intelligence officials in Pristina are openly questioning the wisdom of cooperating with the K.L.A., which so far has delivered little more than revenge killings, rapes and headaches...