Word: doves
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Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka and President Neil L. Rudenstine all praised W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday in what speakers said was a long overdue recognition of the pioneering scholar...
Among those reading from Du Bois' work were Dove, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, author Jamaica Kincaid, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Arnold Rampersad...
After receiving grant money from several research groups Keasey spent 28 days diving off a five square-mile island and filming the reproductive customs of the clown fish for research on her biology thesis. Keasy lived in cabins along with other biological researchers and dove three times daily with an assistant...
Abba Eban, Israel's former Foreign Minister and chief dove, once observed in wonderment that when it comes to peace, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In 1947, when the U.N. offered them a state side by side with Israel, they rejected the plan and joined the Arab war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in order to take all of Palestine for themselves. They lost...
Nearly two years after the start of official peace talks, first in Madrid and later in Washington, deadlocked negotiations lent special urgency to the back-channel talks. Immediately after meeting Kriah, Hirschfeld called a high- ranking friend, Yossi Beilin, Deputy Foreign Minister and an aggressive dove. Beilin was interested but noncommittal. Nevertheless, he extended what Pundak describes as a "very long leash" -- in effect, carte blanche to explore all possibilities and report back at every stage of the contacts. Ever since the Labor Party regained power last year, Israel had begun opening the process. In fact, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres...