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While an extensive portion of the six-hour meeting was devoted to public comment and zoning matters, discussion over Harvard's proposals for development in Allston quickly led to a free-for-all discussion that touched on issues ranging from Harvard's relationship with city officials to University employees not receiving a living wage...
...Camp David, the Israelis presented compromises. They want to keep those parts of the West Bank, perhaps 5% to 10% of the area, where most Jewish settlers live and might offer the Palestinians, as a swap, a portion of uninhabited land within Israel proper. Israel is open to allowing limited numbers of refugees to return, under cover of an existing family-reunification program, with the rest compensated for their property out of an international fund and permanently resettled in their current host countries, in Palestine or elsewhere...
...portion of the Mississippi is missing from your cover. From Bemidji, Minn., to Prairie du Chien, Wis., lies the most beautiful and natural part of the river, with scenic backwaters and fantastic bluffs lining either side--and the people are among the friendliest. Too bad you missed it. TOM VOLK La Crosse...
Midland even informs Bush's policy preferences. Not long ago, on a campaign swing to Oregon, he tried to explain to a group of factory workers why he believes a portion of their Social Security should be invested in private accounts. "Maybe it's because I was raised in West Texas, far away from the center of power," Bush said, "and I trust individuals." McKinnon and a film crew flew to Midland last month to shoot footage for the convention film, and references to Bush's homestead are sure to find their way into the convention speech...
...agreement to put behind them a brutal shared history of conquest, dispossession, terrorism and war. But even those pro-Western Arab regimes in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia that have traditionally encouraged Arafat to compromise have backed the Palestinian leader to the hilt in demanding that the eastern portion of the city captured by Israel in 1967 - the part, incidentally, which contains all the above-mentioned holy sites - be handed back. Because the same religious passion that drives Israel's insistence that it be recognized as the sovereign power over all of the Holy City also makes holding onto Jerusalem...