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...been forgiven if Arafat had been able to deliver in the political arena. But after 33 years in power, all Arafat could bring the Palestinian people were an ambiguous set of treaties known as the Oslo Accords. Hailed in the West as a breakthrough, the Oslo Accords--which reaped Nobel Peace Prizes for Arafat and his Israeli counterparts--left the Palestinians worse off than ever before. The agreements virtually conceded that Palestinian refugees would give up their internationally-recognized human right to return to their homes--the right for which they had been fighting since 1948. Despite this concession, nothing...
...article quotes MIT professor Nancy Hopkins, who dismisses our findings of greater male productivity by claiming that scientists who work outside an institution cannot judge the performance of its faculty. Yet this is precisely what committees that award research grants and Nobel Prizes do all the time...
...deliberate bias, I point out that in choosing the senior males to include in the study, we considered only those who received their doctorates in the same time frame (1970-76) as the senior women. This resulted in the exclusion of some of the most distinguished males, specifically two Nobel laureates who graduated in 1968 and 1969. We also presented data for junior scientists. These data showed very encouraging performance trends for junior women faculty. Contrary to Hopkins' claims, we did not tailor our methodology to a particular result; we simply followed standards commonly used in universities throughout...
...mails and other documents at a congressional hearing into the Rich pardon--a scandal that threatens to extend the Clinton era well into George W. Bush's first year. The documents revealed that Rich strategists debated whether to enlist Hillary Clinton in the effort and whether to tap Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel to serve as a "moral authority" in favor of forgiveness. But Republican probers seized on Dozoretz as a potentially important piece in the pardon puzzle--or at least one guaranteed to keep some of the Clintons' friends in the hot seat. She has raised millions for the Democrats...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...