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Isabelle said she filed the lawsuit three years after the alleged assault took place, a day before the three-year statue of limitations expired. Isabelle said she was awarded an $11,000 settlement in September 2002 but is appealing the decision to seek a more favorable deal. A spokesman for the University declined to comment...
...failing health poses a dilemma for Sharon. Since he unveiled his disengagement plan late last year, Sharon has successfully sold it to the Israeli public and to the Bush Administration as an alternative to the peace process, allowing him to put off indefinitely negotiations over a final two-state settlement. As Sharon sees it, Arafat is a terrorist, and Israel won't negotiate with him. Israel, the argument continues, should pull out of Gaza and set up a more defensible position in the West Bank while waiting for Arafat to die and be replaced by someone Sharon can trust. Sharon...
...support of left-wing and Arab parties. But his right-wing bloc split. The crisis of legitimacy has shocking similarities to the internal divisions that shook Israel before the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Some soldiers threaten not to carry out Sharon's orders to evacuate settlements, and their influential rabbis back them. The plan poses a dilemma for the religious Zionist movement at the heart of the settlement project. Its early rabbis decreed that Zionism was God's work because it reclaimed the land of Israel, even if many of its leaders were secular Jews...
...Behind the scenes, the new U.S. Administration should help broker a settlement between India and Pakistan over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, says Riffat Hussain, professor of security studies at Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University. That would defuse tension between these two nuclear-armed enemies. A partial settlement over Kashmir could be one major surprise in the offing. Musharraf has suggested dropping Pakistan's insistence that a referendum be held among Kashmiris to choose whether they want the territory to belong to India or Pakistan. But President Bush will also have to decide whether to push Musharraf into...
...served from 1995 to 1999 in a variety of roles in the executive branch of the Clinton White House, including as deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council. In 1996, Kagan worked closely with Clinton to draft the settlement levelled against tobacco corporations in response to legislation introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz...