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Harvard is surrounded by world-class ice cream joints. At a university which is required by some ancient and sacred pact to serve ice cream with at least one meal a day, students still find the best offerings off campus. Blessing is piled atop cold, creamy blessing at such local establishments as Baskin Robbins, Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, and Scoops and Beans...
...private "benchmark paper" that the minimal requirements set down in Dayton do not exist; there is no freedom of movement, no freedom of expression, no freedom of association. The blame for much of that lies directly with Karadzic, who has challenged or rejected every civilian provision of the Dayton pact...
...international status as a pariah. The 1953 armistice ending the three-year Korean War allows just 35 soldiers on each side of the zone, permits soldiers to carry only sidearms and prohibits gunfire. Pyongyang has declared the armistice meaningless and has repeatedly demonstrated its scorn for the pact. In early April, 100 North Korean soldiers entered the demilitarized zone on three consecutive nights. North Korea also ejected foreign cease-fire observers from its territory and closed its offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. After the April incursions, President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam suggested that...
...peace: "We will not let our anger turn ourselves away from peace. It is the only way to give those who have chosen peace confidence that they have made the right choice." Peres thanked Clinton for the support the U.S. has given Israel and said he hoped today's pact will conclude "a history of bloodshed." The agreement was signed just one day before a scheduled White House visit from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Clinton said he would commend Arafat for last week's vote by the Palestine National Council to remove language in its charter that calls...
Clinton also declared a peace dividend following a pact by the world's seven wealthiest industrial nations plus Russia to seek a ban on nuclear testing by September. The same Moscow summit produced agreement on joint efforts to contain trafficking in nuclear materials. "Today we took yet another step back from the nuclear precipice," said the President. But environmental groups sharply criticized the summit for its failure to deal with a score of issues, including the shutdown of aging, Soviet-designed nuclear reactors. Meanwhile Russia reaffirmed its decision to sell nuclear-energy technology to Iran despite the Administration's protests...