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...opposition drove up cost and time estimates.But on Friday, the focus was on Knafel, a managing partner at investment firm SRK Management. University President Lawrence H. Summers credited him with helping create a center to confront global issues and foster greater communication.“There is never a quid pro quo whenever Sid Knafel is concerned,” Summers said in remarks delivered in the Knafel Building’s modern atrium, a blend of curved and straight lines. “Generations of students and faculty owe an immense debt of gratitude to Sid Knafel...
Though he has met with American officials over the past two weeks, it is not yet clear whether Waite has anything of substance to offer the kidnapers in exchange for their freeing the Americans. The captors have continued to demand as a quid pro quo the release of 17 Shi'ites jailed in Kuwait for terrorist attacks on the French and American embassies and other installations. So far, the U.S. and Kuwait have been unwilling to consider a deal...
...easyBus Holy Grail - the $2 starting price. Having paid $7.50, I kept quiet. "It changes your habits," says Nicolas Legrand, a 25-year-old mechanical engineer from Nice, aboard our Boeing 737-700 easyJet flight from Luton to Nice. "It's possible to get a flight for a few quid." When chewing over a getaway, he says, "the first thing I do is check [easyJet's] website." Not far from Legrand's house in Nice, the easyCruiseOne was docked, set against the muted tones of the port like a brushstroke in orange across a Monet. "Have you ever seen...
...While the meaning of the resolution may be disputed, the negotiations between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Palestinian Authority in 2000 following the Camp David breakdown appear to have been guided by the 1967 borders as the starting point, with modifications to be negotiated in a quid...
Gallucio said that in the past, the University has only periodically increased its payment-in-lieu-of-taxes as a “quid-pro-quo” for city concessions on development issues. But he said the city and the University need to agree on a “more dignified process” in which Harvard’s payments rise in step with homeowners’ tax bills...