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Those plans, however, prompted a stir at a Faculty Council meeting in April. Some professors are questioning whether the arc is really an effort to cut costs, and others have wondered aloud whether departments slated for the new area can opt, not to move...
...there was any single advantage that Breyer had in Clinton's eyes, it was that he would stir little controversy and consume little of Clinton's dwindling store of political capital in the Senate. Above all, the President doesn't want a messy confirmation fight. On that score Breyer, a onetime chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will vote on his nomination, can't be beat. In fact, he has the support of such ideological opposites as Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy...
...returning in the wake of a U.S. invasion, Aristide would surely be perceived as an American puppet by many Haitians. At the same time, he continues to stir antipathy at the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. Earlier this month officials leaked a confidential cable that had been sent to Washington charging that Aristide and his supporters "manipulate or even fabricate human-rights abuses as a propaganda tool." The deposed President's followers called for the ouster of several U.S. embassy diplomats -- hardly auspicious for the partnership. Even if Aristide's return could be orchestrated smoothly, he would encounter...
...Cairo, when 1,000 Palestinian policemen are scheduled to arrive in the Gaza Strip and Jericho as Israeli troops pull out. An additional 8,000 police will gradually be deployed. The P.L.O. is expected to make great fanfare out of the arrival of the first police in order to stir up public enthusiasm for self-rule. Spirits have been soured by the slow-moving negotiations as well as by tight restrictions locking out Palestinians who work in Israel, imposed after 13 Israelis died in suicide bombings by Palestinians seeking revenge for the February massacre of worshippers at a Hebron mosque...
...rejection came amid rumors that Beys planned to "stir up friction" at this Sunday's meeting, according to an executive board member...