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...Indeed, last week's Middle East confrontation had Bush-folly written all over it-and not just because the Iranian government's cowboy faction might be strutting its stuff. Bush's failure to patiently broker a real Middle East settlement-mostly because he refused to speak to Yasser Arafat or demand concessions from the Israelis-helped lead to Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy in Gaza. Peace isn't made unilaterally. An unstated part of Israeli policy was that provocations by Hamas and Hizballah would have to be met with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from...
...this is happening, of course, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is a source of contention as much as ever. Israel broke off political talks with Yasser Arafat on a settlement in 2001 when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was elected, while President Bush has shunned the active Middle East diplomacy practiced by most of his predecessors. But despite Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip a year ago, Israeli and U.S. policies of shunning negotiations have not produced much new hope of lasting progress. In fact, Palestinian voters six months ago ousted the late Yasser Arafat...
...Last year, Harvard agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle the suit, in addition to a $2 million payment by Shleifer himself, who has denied any wrongdoing. Shleifer reportedly mortgaged his own house in order to pay a portion of the settlement...
...University’s decision to pay settlement costs and to allow Shleifer to maintain his teaching post have also irked some professors, who believed it might be the result of Shleifer’s close relationship with Summers. But in May, the Corporation issued a statement saying that Summers had been “recused totally” from discussions about the litigation and any possible disciplinary decisions in the case...
...week after five turbulent years. Just weeks before his resignation, Summers said at a confrontational Faculty meeting that he did not know enough details to have an opinion on the Shleifer case, angering some Faculty members who saw his remarks as disingenuous.The University’s decision to pay settlement costs and to allow Shleifer to maintain his teaching post have also irked some professors, who believed it might be the result of Shleifer’s close relationship with Summers. But in May, the Corporation issued a statement saying that Summers had been ”recused totally?...