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...decision to move was a real estate decision," Savin explained. "The landlord of the property had another, better offer and we decided to relinquish the space...
...wake of the Gary Graham execution, which garnered significant international media attention, Bush may be quite pleased to relinquish control over these cases; with the governor on the national campaign trail, the responsibility for passing final review falls to Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry. Unfortunately for Bush, the long-term legal and moral questions (should mentally retarded inmates be exempt from capital punishment?) raised by Cruz's case will always end up back on his desk...
Until the talks at Camp David--and there too at times--Arafat and his delegates held hard to maximalist positions that the Israelis reject out of hand. To end the conflict once and for all, the Palestinians said, Israel would have to relinquish every inch of the Gaza Strip and West Bank. That would include all of East Jerusalem, which would become the capital of Palestine, as well as areas colonized by 175,000 Jewish settlers, who would have to leave. The negotiators also demanded the right of all Palestinian refugees from areas that are within Israel to return...
...been a central theme of President Kim Dae Jung's political platform, and skeptics will have been quieted by the overwhelming enthusiasm the summit generated among South Koreans. But once the dewy afterglow has subsided, years of tough negotiations lie ahead, and Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking things slowly: South Korea is only beginning to emerge from an economic slump, and even in the unlikely even that Pyongyang were amenable, it can't afford to simply absorb North Korea in the way West Germany...
...April 1998 Radcliffe College may relinquish its role as an undergraduate college and become an "allied institution," the Boston Globe reports. The following week, students rally in Radcliffe Yard in support of the 120-year-old institution...