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That still leaves another possibility--a negotiated settlement. The appeals court seemed to be pushing both sides back to the bargaining table. It's likely that Microsoft and the government will start talking sooner rather than later. But that doesn't mean they will get to yes. The parties tried to make a deal last year, with federal Judge Richard Posner as mediator. But the states and Microsoft reportedly could not agree on the remedy. In any new negotiations, that same stalemate may occur again...
While the impetus for the legislation was Harvard’s purchase of the Arsenal property, Kaprielian said that this legislation might be enacted even if Harvard and Watertown came to a settlement on the University’s future payment to the city...
...Clinton, is not in the offing. To pre-empt harsher regulations and win protection against future lawsuits, Philip Morris is even asking Congress to grant the FDA limited oversight. Such longtime foes as Illinois Senator Dick Durbin are nonplussed. "It's laughable," he says, referring to the DOJ's settlement talks. "In a real negotiation, they could have included [FDA] regulation with teeth. Now they'll be lucky to get anything...
...MACEDONIA A Chance at Peace nato promised to send some 3,000 troops to Macedonia to help with disarmament of ethnic Albanian rebels if a political settlement could be reached and rebels persuaded to lay down their arms. But conditions for the deployment seemed remote. Talks in Skopje between parties representing the country's ethnic Albanian and Macedonian Slav ethnic groups foundered on differences over constitutional changes. Government forces then broke an 11-day-old cease-fire by launching an offensive on three villages in the hills just outside Skopje...
...long-term interim arrangements. To be sure, if the current cease-fire were to pass both its seven-day and six-week authenticity tests, Sharon would face something of a political crisis. Besides the fact that the "confidence building" mechanisms of the current truce include a freeze on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, which Sharon and his supporters reject, the cease-fire is supposed to result in a revival of the political negotiations eclipsed by the ten-month intifada. But the political talks broke down at Camp David when Yasser Arafat was unable to embrace...