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...also a Hamas landscape. The gate to one former settlement, Kfar Darom, is painted with Hamas graffiti proclaiming, "Welcome to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin City," in honor of the group's founder, killed in an Israeli missile attack in February last year. Eight kids wearing green Hamas baseball caps jog out of the biggest settlement, Neveh Dekalim, dragging a looted telephone pole. At the gate of the southernmost settlement, Rafiah Yam, a youth pulls an uprooted banana tree toward his home in neighboring Rafah...
...Abbas's soldiers are posted lazily at the entrance to what used to be the main Israeli settlement bloc. While the citizens of Gaza rip apart the remains of the settlements and tour cheerily around in trucks emblazoned with Hamas flags, the soldiers are making afternoon tea and sheltering from...
...place a process through which we are carefully reviewing a range of options to increase the value of our company, including those proposed by Mr. Icahn and his group." Ross, who over the years has been both Icahn's ally and foe, predicts that "unless there's a negotiated settlement, it's inevitable that this will get ugly." Look no further than Blockbuster for an idea of how nasty it could get. Icahn bought a stake in the company last year, and after management resisted his calls for change, Icahn publicly derided the CEO for taking an excessive pay package...
...there in the 1990s. Conflict of interest provisions in Shleifer’s contract with the government explicitly forbid him from investing in the very economy he was in charge of developing. Harvard was also named in the suit and this summer agreed to pay $26.5 million, the largest settlement in the school’s history, according to a University spokesman...
...investments in Russia and disbanded the program. The two men, however, remained close. When Summers interviewed for the Harvard presidency, he stayed at Shleifer’s home in Newton, Mass. (Shleifer mortgaged that house this summer to pay the first $600,000 installment on his settlement.) And after becoming president, according to his deposition, Summers told then-Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles not to fire Shleifer...