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...decades after KSG’s establishment, professors recall an icy standoff between FAS government faculty and the politicians and policymakers who historically taught at KSG, with heated personal rivalries all but precluding productive collaboration in teaching and research...
...standoff is the strongest indication yet of the chill in U.S.-Israel relations since the needs of the anti-terrorism coalition forced the Bush administration to adopt a more activist stance on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Two weeks ago, Sharon warned President Bush against sacrificing Israel to "appease" his Arab allies, drawing a sharp rebuke from Washington for an "unacceptable" statement. The latest sign of discord is more serious, however, because this time it is Israel's tactics in response to the Palestinian intifada that Washington has described as "unacceptable" and as part of the problem...
...NAURU Refugee Standoff Australia's strategy of sending asylum seekers to the Pacific island of Nauru suffered a setback when 200 Palestinians and Iraqis refused to disembark from an Australian navy ship. The group left H.M.A.S. Manoora after a 12-day standoff, but not before the U.N. said it would not process any further boatloads bound for Australia and diverted to Nauru...
AUSTRALIA Asylum Seekers at Sea Aweeklong standoff over a refugee-laden ship ended after Australia devised a plan to send some 460 asylum seekers to other countries. New Zealand agreed to accept 150 of the migrants, while Australia will foot the bill for the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru to take the rest temporarily. The refugees had been in watery limbo ever since a Norwegian cargo ship, the Tampa, rescued them from a foundering wooden ferry off the Indonesian coast. They demanded that the skipper take them to the Australian territory of Christmas Island or to "any Western country...
...self-government were widely blamed on the refusal of the IRA to begin decommissioning its weapons, and the recent capture by Colombian authorities of three alleged IRA men accused of training that country's leftist guerrillas had done little to improve the image of the Republican cause. The Ardoyne standoff, however, is a reminder of the communal hatreds that helped spawn today's IRA, and of the ugly bigotry and extremism that persists in a section of the Loyalist movement...