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...union had every right to ask for better pay, and we congratulate them on finally reaching a settlement. We hope Harvard’s upcoming negotiations with other workers will be resolved without PSLM resorting to its coercive tactics; it should rely on the collective bargaining process instead...
...viewing of a short documentary film on the Abu Ghneim Mountain Israeli Settlement Project opened the event. Hanauer later referred to the project as an example of Israeli expansion into Palestinian lands. It was followed by introductory remarks by Hanauer and Jeremy C. Bird, a second-year HDS student who has been working with Hanauer for the past year...
...After two years writing in Hong Kong where he was Asian affairs correspondent for ITN and many months burrowing through London's Imperial War Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green...
Second, have on hand a 1921–1923 map of Great Britain’s division of the mandated area of “Palestine.” Although the entire Palestine Mandate was to have been open for Jewish settlement, the British lopped off 80 percent of it to create Transjordan after the Hashmites were expelled from Arabia by the Ibn Saud family. This map makes it clear that Jordan represented the lion’s share of historical Palestine; indeed, the majority of Jordan is still made up of Palestinian Arabs, just as the majority of Palestinian...
...potential emergence of a new diplomatic initiative puts Sharon in a difficult position. A fierce opponent of the Oslo Accords and a long-time champion of Israeli settlement in the territories occupied in 1967, the Israeli leader can't find much to like in what the Saudi proposal requires of Israel. And yet he can't afford to ignore it, either. The principle of negotiating a withdrawal to something close to the 1967 borders is a recurring theme of all of the long-term peace plans currently in circulation. And Sharon, at least for now, lacks an alternative. He remains...