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...Zinni brought nothing new in his toolkit. Instead, his mission was a kind of third-time-lucky attempt to activate the cease-fire plan formulated last June by CIA director George Tenet, and sullenly adopted, but never implemented, by both sides. The Tenet plan, though, was simply a rough choreography - whose sequences and precise requirements have consumed most of the talks hosted by Zinni - of the prelude to implementing the Mitchell Report. And the Mitchell recommendations are squarely based entirely on the premise of helping the two sides find a way back to the final status negotiations that began...
...polished, left-leaning Blair and the rough-hewn, conservative Bush are an odd couple, but the chemistry in their relationship "is just as good as with Clinton," says one Whitehall official. A senior Bush aide agrees. "Blair's not a Eurowimp. He's not ponderous, hand-wringing and he doesn't lecture. He gets to the bottom line and that's Bush's cup of tea." The President recently wrote Blair a note saying, "I like your style." They use each other as sounding boards, they chew things over, and they disagree - though Downing St. is exceedingly disciplined about...
Within a week, Watertown and Harvard will finish a deal which both sides hail as a major step forward for a town whose relations with Harvard got off to a rough start last year...
...When things get rough for us, we always look to Jenn to see what we should do next,” sophomore forward Hana Peljto said. “A lot of times when we all really don’t know what we’re doing out there, she keeps us calm. She’s just a great point guard that knows her X’s and O’s. Sometimes we take her for granted, and we find that out when she’s not in the game...
...last year has been rough for Harvard. First there was that incident in Mass. Hall, then Brother Cornel got all red in the face, and now the endowment has shrunk to a paltry $18.3 billion, approximately $7.8 billion of which belongs to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS). With only 5.5 times the GDP of Haiti in the bank the prudent penny-counters at the Harvard Corporation have decided to play it safe and tighten the purse strings. In dollars the amount of money paid out of the endowment will be only 2 percent larger than the amount paid...