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Bashar Assad, Syria's baby-faced, blunt-spoken President, probably never imagined he would be going head to head with the U.S. over the future of the Middle East. That was more the kind of mission relished by his late father Hafez Assad, the stern military commander who ruled Syria for 30 years until his death in 2000. Bashar's humble ambition was to leave politics to others in the clan and become a doctor. In the early '90s he went to London to study ophthalmology. There he courted his wife Asma, a young banker of Syrian origin...
...most detailed articulation yet on the issue, the soft-spoken diplomat said: "No war can happen anywhere that does not change relations between the countries that were involved in the war and the regional countries...
...Reyes, who has also spoken with Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye about the issue, said she thought the concerns about due process were misguided, given that Mercedes admitted to hitting her, according to police records...
...over just where Israeli-Palestinian borders should be drawn). But Ariel Sharon was not party to the Taba talks (they were conducted by the Barak government shortly before his election), and had vociferously rejected even Barak's more limited offer at Camp David the previous summer. Although Sharon has spoken recently of the need for "painful concessions" to achieve peace, few Israeli analysts believe he is willing to go nearly as far as his predecessor. Which suggests that even once the Arafat roadblock is cleared, publication of the road map may be only the beginning of a long and painful...
...issue of sexual violence at Harvard has been the subject of heated debate for over a decade. In 1990, a Date Rape Task Force, convened in response to student activism, proposed a “Policy Statement on Sexual Misconduct” that required affirmative consent (a spoken “Yes”) before sex. However, after review by the then-Dean of the College, L. Fred Jewett ’57, the statement was changed to require “expressed unwillingness” or an inability to give consent due to drugs or alcohol for an incident...