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...should lead the way in “imposing a settlement’’ on the Israelis and Palestinians following the guidelines of the agreement nearly reached at Taba in January 2001, saying the current leadership in the region will not be able to reach a settlement...
...only 5% of the money has been used for that purpose, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, with much of it going to such things as education, capital improvements and budget shortfalls. But perhaps no state has been quite so brazen in distorting the purpose of the settlement money as tobacco-producing North Carolina, which has directed only 1.2% of tobacco revenues to smoking prevention...
Last fall Golden LEAF (Long-Term Economic Advancement Foundation), a nonprofit organization established by the North Carolina General Assembly to distribute half the state's settlement revenues, spent $15,000 for a tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 for water and sewer engineering to attract a tobacco-processing plant. "The money is going in a circle here," says Don Carrington, vice president of the John Locke Foundation, a state-government watchdog group...
Since the suit’s filing in September 2000, Harvard and the government had been negotiating to reach a settlement. The Globe reported these settlement talks have now broken down, leading the government to ask the judge for an immediate verdict against the University. Harvard has also asked the judge to make an immediate decision in the case—requesting the court clear the University of all allegations of wrongdoing...
...lessons of the Powell visit. The lesson drawn is that Sharon should get on with booting out Arafat, and Bush will fall into line. From the other end of the spectrum, Haaretz warns the Bush administration that Sharon's repeated vows in recent days to maintain every Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza "cast a dark shadow" over President Bush's claim that the Israeli prime minister is a "man of peace." In the mean time, they warn, he may be about to launch a new offensive in Gaza...