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...sort of peace with the Palestinians, albeit one very different from that bruited at the failed Camp David summit between Arafat and Ehud Barak last year. While Barak wanted to negotiate an end to the conflict, Sharon is looking for what his aides call a "long-term interim settlement." To counter Israel's vulnerability, Sharon's advisers say he intends to insist on buffer zones both along the inside of the West Bank where it borders Israel and in the Jordan Valley. Advisers say Sharon is convinced that ground forces are decisive in war, and for that you need...
...West Bank and Gaza have long considered the Prime Minister one of their champions. Almost three months ago, Sharon visited the hospital bedside of a five-month-old boy injured by a stone thrown at his parents' car as they drove to their home in the Shilo settlement. The baby died soon after, and Sharon was deeply affected by the tragedy. Still, though Sharon may sympathize with the settlers' plight, they chafe at what they consider his restraint. So do Likud activists, furious that their leader isn't taking a harder line. Sharon is doing his best to soothe...
...colleges began to recognize binge drinking was a problem they had to face. (And everybody took notice recently when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid a $6 million settlement to the family of a student who died of alcohol poisoning). And now, thanks to the AMA initiative, communities are beginning to get involved, too. They see tax dollars being spent on sanitation workers cleaning vomit off the streets, hospitals giving emergency care to scores of students after every fraternity rush, police officers investigating drinking-related cases of vandalism and sexual assault...
Even though the Justice Department?s trustbusters decided Thursday to abandon their effort to break up Microsoft in court, drop its "bundling" investigations and open its arms to a case-closing settlement, the Redmond software giant?s troubles are not immediately over...
Great schools like Yale should not escape condemnation so quickly. Contrary to McWhorter’s claim, slavery was condemned by many intellectual leaders in early America. In the 1680s, shortly after the settlement of Pennsylvania, Quakers there began strenuous efforts to discourage slavery. In the wake of the Revolution, many people—inspired by Enlightenment ideas that taught the fundamental equality of humans—urged the abolition of slavery. Many Americans knew slavery was wrong, but the leading institutions—churches, school and courts—continued to embrace slavery...