Word: processes
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...action has had only a small impact on admissions to U.C. as a whole--the eight U.C. campuses took 47,804 students this year, 7,439 of them black, Hispanic and Native American--only 27 fewer minority students than in 1997, the last year race was part of the process. But the new rules have caused a lot of cascading down the U.C. pecking order. At the most selective campus, Berkeley, freshman enrollment of Hispanics has fallen 34% in the past two years, and it's down 57% for blacks. The least exclusive campus, Riverside, has seen black admissions rise...
...unpredictable process, publication," Hu said. "But it was well received [at the conference] so we hope it will be published...
...them into one -- even as the province braces itself for some ugly fireworks on July 4. After marathon talks failed to yield a breakthrough two days after passing their deadline, British prime minister Tony Blair announced Friday that his government would simply implement the next stage of the peace process without waiting for republicans and loyalists to agree on the handover of IRA weapons. Loyalist politicians had sought to delay the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly's executive, which would include two seats for the republican Sinn Fein, until the IRA begins decommissioning its weapons. By legislatively enabling...
...most Palestinian refugees originally fled homes in what is now Israel. But the episode reflects a mounting problem for Barak. "U.S.-Israel relations may face a period of tension because of the false expectation that Barak?s election will be the key to breaking the deadlocks in the peace process," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "The disputes between Israel and the Palestinians over issues ranging from the status of Jerusalem and the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank to the question of refugees are exceedingly complicated and there are no quick solutions...
While the collapse of the peace process may have been accelerated by Netanyahu, it was already in trouble even before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin -? and Barak had been considered a hawk in Rabin?s cabinet. After taking office as prime minister next week, Barak plans to visit Washington and to meet with Yasser Arafat. The atmospherics of those meetings will seem light-years away from the sullen exchanges with Netanyahu, but don?t expect the deep substantive differences to melt like the morning mist...