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...anonymous donor just wanted to make sure that the program went on," says Gila D. Jones '02. "[She] thought that this would be a really great thing for Harvard. It was a last resort...
...many observers believe that the talks in the Sinai resort of Taba are mostly for the consumption of Israeli voters. The Palestinians are throwing Barak a lifeline, realizing that progress toward peace is his only hope of holding off the Sharon challenge - and they also don't want to be painted as spoilsports in U.S. eyes. For Barak, keeping the talks going may be a frantic effort to persuade Israeli-Arab voters (about 20 percent of the electorate) to go to the polls and vote for him. It was the withdrawal of Israeli-Arab support that cost Shimon Peres...
...There's something more than a little surreal about the World Economic Forum's annual get-together in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, which opened on Thursday. Davos is a conspiracy theorist's dream. Its participants - scores of heads of state and senior ministers, representatives of 1,000 of the world's biggest corporations and an eclectic assortment of economists, social critics, writers, artists and thinkers - may reflect an unparalleled concentration of political and economic power, and yet the event has no formal mandate or decision-making power. In fact, it's not even strictly a conference...
...guns themselves are a rarely used last resort, instructors say. The University only authorizes using deadly force to save the life of an officer or another person, and HUPD stresses at every level of training that guns should only be used when a lethal threat is imminent...
...choose a good guy--there are newsmakers of every stripe--but this time you've gone too far [PERSON OF THE YEAR, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Your selection of George W. Bush proclaimed to the world that anyone can become President of the U.S., even if he has to resort to stealth and theft to get there. JEANNE SMITH Mount Laurel...