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Even before the Baker-Shoval meeting last week, the Palestinians had threatened to withdraw from the talks. But Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian peace negotiators, made it clear that if the guarantees were conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...
...Hamad, a Palestinian, the project had special import. Born in Rafat, a now demolished Arab village located in what is Israel today, he says, "I am acutely aware that we Palestinians are misunderstood as a people." He tells of an elegant Palestinian woman, Hanan Bargouthi, who, having undergone a humiliating search at a London airport, observed bitterly, "I am Palestinian by birth, Jordanian by passport, Israeli because of the occupation and a terrorist according to security people...
...Hanan noted that students are currently forced to choose between the two programs at the end of their first year at Harvard, and that concentrators generally have little idea what approach to the region they want to take...
...think it is a natural development," said Patrick D. Hanan, professor of Chinese literature. "The programs seem to overlap to a considerable degree and it makes sense for them to be grouped under an umbrella structure...
...merger was proposed for "convenience for the students as much as anything else," Hanan said. "You can't expect people to know what they are going to specialize in so early in their sophomore year...