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Efforts to reform tenure seem to fall in this category...
Outgoing Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles says that while Summers did not initiate either the study abroad reform or the grading and honors changes, he significantly quickened work on both...
...three issues—study abroad, grades and honors reform and curricular review—Summers does say he played a role...
...tightening Israeli blockade. And the militants of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and even the grassroots of Arafat's own Fatah organization have made clear their disdain for their leadership's calls for restraint in order to revive a peace process. Palestinian security structures, meanwhile, are the subject of intensive reform and resuscitation efforts led by the U.S., while Israeli troops continue to maintain effective security control over the formerly off-limits PA-run towns of the West Bank. So, while the Israelis may not have been seen around Arafat's compound for almost a month before Thursday, they've been...
...security structure with the capability and political will to bottle up terrorists. And even in the best-case scenario, that would be some time in coming, more so as long as Israeli forces are operating inside the PA's domain. But the Israelis believe the U.S. vision of PA reform and dialogue is hypothetical as long as Arafat remains in power, and they're unlikely to return security control over the West Bank cities to the PA any time soon. The deployment of Israeli troops in what were, until April, off-limits Palestinian towns has now become so routine that...