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...should help all the countries that share the river. There are still many hurdles. Egypt, for instance, is meeting resistance over its demands that it be given an effective veto over all proposed development. It also wants to be allowed to keep the historic agreements that assure it a minimum quantity of Nile water, which other countries question. "These issues could take many years," says Abdel Fattah Metawie, chairman of Egypt's Nile Water Sector, a department of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (his business card jokingly credits his ministry with being in operation "since...
...role.”Hurley says she has attended the meetings with the Allston Task Force (once characterized by its chairman as a “little local, yokel group”) and thinks that the University tries to cooperate with residents, but resists stating more than the bare minimum about its plans.“They do try to answer what they can, but they stick to the agenda. You always hear the same thing,” she says. ‘LATE NIGHT TOO-MUCH-WINE DRIVEL’The urgency of stem cell research has propelled...
...Opus Dei facilities. "It's like working at a hotel," says Lucy, except that the job requires daily prayer, daily penance and lifelong celibacy. The work meant 12-hour days, six or seven days a week at Opus Dei centers from San Francisco to Boston, and Lucy says her minimum-wage salary was turned over to the organization. She found the stringent regulation of her life incredibly grueling. "You had to ask permission to do everything," she recalls. "If you wanted to go out with a friend, watch TV or listen to the radio...
...very few of the schools and hospitals are legally owned by Opus, which admits only to providing "doctrinal and spiritual formation." It is a tribute to the persistence of Allen and his financial expert, Joseph Harris, that they determined that at least in the U.S., Opus proper enjoys a minimum of "dual control" over them by placing members on their boards...
...vital minimum," but they had advanced far beyond the paper armies of two years ago. "Certo it is," said one Italian laborer last week, between talk of a football lottery and the price of bread, "that war is no nearer this year than it was last, and maybe-I say it with the smallest of maybes-it is farther away." In many ways, 1952 might be called the Year of the Generals. The entrenched ones, like Stalin and Franco and Mao and Tito, held their familiar sway. Others came to power; in coups d'etat (Egypt's Naguib...