Word: sheikh
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Oral agreements, as the saying goes, are worth about as much as the paper on which they're written. And in the case of the cease-fire agreed to at Sharm el-Sheikh Tuesday, the oral agreement was not one between Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but rather two separate agreements between each man and President Clinton. That leaves each side to interpret the agreement according to their own explanation of the current violence, and gives it at best a 50-50 chance of holding. Israel has ostensibly agreed to withdraw its army from the perimeter of most major Palestinian...
...refused to sign an agreement without the promise of an international commission of inquiry into the current violence. That demand was rejected by the Israeli prime minister, who then abandoned the second leg of the talks to be held Thursday in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el Sheikh...
While many remember with fondness the special convocation for Nelson Mandela or the charm of King Abdullah of Jordan, a few guests, like Mahuad, could be accused of using the University's name for unsavory ends. For example, this past spring, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, touted as a progressive woman leader, gave a public address at the Institute of Politics. While many in the audience gushed at how wonderful it was to see a female head of government from South Asia, no one mentioned another Bangladeshi proponent of women's rights, Kalpana Chakma...
Chakma was allegedly abducted by government forces in 1996 and has never been seen since. Prime Minister Hasina has to this day refused to release the report of the investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, a bill that would create a national human rights commission had been languishing in Sheikh Hasina's cabinet for over a year while she rushed through a draconian "national security...
...joke that the World Bank and IMF recruit third-rate students from first-rate universities, but that's only half the story. The truth is that even very intelligent and well-meaning people can be taught not to think critically, and visits to Harvard by the Mahuads, Sheikh Hasinas, and Wambia dia Wambas of the world sometimes contribute to this...