Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vorenberg and other Law School officialscall the settlement a reiteration of Law Schoolpolicy, and not a compromise...
Harvard has long had an important influence on the city that surrounds it. In fact, when the University was founded in the early settlement of Newtowne, the town changed its name to Cambridge in honor of the English university Harvard hoped to emulate. Three hundred fifty-two years later, the University, as the city's largest employer and its biggest landlord, still plays a major role in shaping the surrounding community...
...dream, she says, is to become theambassador to Israel of a yet-unestablishedPalestinian state. While most observers doubt thatthe two sides will be reconciled in the nearfuture, Khalil says she believes "the Palestinianand Israeli peoples are ready for a settlement."She adds, "There's a deep bond between thesepeoples, because they lived for centuries inpeace. It's not a deep-rooted conflict, but apolitical one, caused by the clashing ofnationalisms...
Hakim notes that Arias' plan for a settlement caught the world's imagination, while the United States' efforts in the same area had failed abysmally. The pact lead to an "immense pride by Central Americans generally" that the U.S. had been surpassed by the efforts of five small Central American nations, Hakim says...
...negotiations would be aimed at self-rule for 1.5 million Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, but not a separate state. In a second stage, Israel and the Arabs would try to find an overall settlement to their conflict...