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Birnbaum and Gest, who is also a Crimson editor, say their goal at the outset of the year was to reserve time at the Murr Center...
...Nobody's expecting Ariel Sharon to sign on to the plan. A champion of Israeli settlement outside the 1967 borders who fiercely rejected the Oslo agreements from the very outset, there's little for Sharon to like in Abdullah's proposal. But by pitching it directly to the Israeli people, he managed to generate significant domestic pressure on Sharon to take it seriously. (And it's worth remembering that the peace plan being touted by Peres is based on the same principle as Abdullah...
...pleaded no-contest to tax evasion charges and was banned in 1993 from serving as an officer in a public company. DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, retired Army lieutenant general who was U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; in West Palm Beach, Florida. Walters' military career began at the outset of WW II, and his linguistic abilities?he spoke seven foreign languages?led him to become a globe-trotting envoy for U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman to Richard Nixon?who appointed him deputy director of the cia in 1972. He retired after four years and in 1981 started a 10-year stint...
...also a courageous book. At the outset Goñi, the son of an Argentine ambassador, asserts that Argentina is a morally-blind country with a "fabricated" history that anyone can tailor to their requirements. He compares Perón's corrupt rule with the murderous 1976-83 military dictatorship that did away with 20,000 of its opponents. Both regimes, he argues, existed because Argentines opted for silence in the face of evil. Goñi has laid down a challenge to the "wall of silence" mentality that allowed Argentina's history to be so sordidly stained...
Indeed, at the outset of the match, it appeared Patterson might well notch the shutout as he kept freshman Michael Strong entirely off balance, reducing him to chasing the ball frantically around the court, a stark contrast to Patterson’s own calm play...