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...term bill fee should be raised....My own sympathies are to increase the UC fee," he writes in an e-mail message. "But this is not the current trend, de facto. I would really prefer to have student support...
...Refusal to engage in a process leading to durable peace...has led de facto to a garrison Israeli state," read the first letter, which outlined alleged inequalities of the peace process...
...Barak had warned earlier that if the violence did not end, Israel would declare an indefinite time out in the peace process. But such a time out may already be a de facto reality, since the momentum of the current violence suggests that neither side can really afford to resume the "final-status" peace negotiations that broke down at Camp David. Even Yasser Arafat?s own supporters have shown little enthusiasm for the cease-fire he agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh, and appear resolved - at least for now - to wage their campaign to end the Israeli occupation...
...spending two semesters passing as a student to research his novel, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which he later adapted for the screen. Crowe has been educating himself as a filmmaker ever since, with James L. Brooks, the producer of both Say Anything...and Jerry Maguire, as a de facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says, taught him how to make his gonzo structure hold together. Like Brooks, Crowe resists traditional screenplay rules, instead laying...
...Sierra Club video tape in her mouth. Says Ray Cunio, of Citizens for Private Property Rights: "No one is talking black helicopters or U.N. troops anymore. What we are seeing today is a federal land grab, done incrementally, by bureaucratic means, that will give the Federal Government de facto control over all land uses and a complete no-use policy on federal lands. This is just a first step...