Word: settlements
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Last week, Harvard Real Estate (HRE), which manages the University's non-academic holdings, reached a settlement with a gay student and the Boston Fair Housing Commission to disregard marital status and sexual orientation in permitting the "domestic partner" of a Harvard affiliate to live in University-owned housing...
...lesbian student leaders said that despite reservations, they were pleased by the settlement, which some said would affect approximately 20 couples...
According to Demong, HRE's new policy labels domestic partner as "couples with committed relationships for their mutual support and benefit. [Domestic partners] must interact as a family and share living expenses." And in the settlement, the University said it would ask domestic partners to verify that their relationships have been going on for six or more months with such evidence as joint bills or bank statements...
Both men seemed to suggest that once a peace is negotiated, the U.S., which has supplied more than $3 billion in military and economic assistance over the past decade, will recede to the political sidelines. Cristiani said that after a settlement is achieved, "this military aid should turn into economic aid and keep on flowing into the country while it recovers economically." < Villalobos, who called for an end to U.S. military aid, voiced skepticism that the Bush Administration "would choose to continue indefinitely its support for the war." He also hoped for "proper relations" with the U.S. Last week...
...keeping the peace talks on track, Cristiani expressed doubts about the guerrillas' aim of achieving a permanent settlement by the end of January, warning that it could take all five years of his administration to achieve an accord. "If the process that we've agreed to in Mexico keeps going, there's always hope," he said. "But it won't be easy...