Word: swaps
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...When last they talked in January 2001, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators crafted a far-reaching solution. A Palestinian state would encompass all of Gaza and up to 96% of the West Bank. To make up for territory annexed to keep many settlements, Israel would swap an equal percentage of land inhabited by Arabs inside Israel. Arafat accepts the idea but rejects anything less than a solid, contiguous border. Sharon's grudging acceptance of an "eventual" Palestine never goes far beyond civil autonomy for Palestinian islets in a sea patrolled by Israeli forces...
...bankers, the Chair of the Executive Committee of Citigroup, Robert E. Rubin ’60, to join their ranks. Although Winokur’s resignation was meant to reduce the Harvard Corporation’s connection to Enron, no one should be misled by this virtually meaningless swap...
...Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week ago, Sharon rolled the troops into the West Bank with nary a peep out of Peres and the White House - except to draw the line at killing or exiling Yasser Arafat...
...relationships,” he says. “Normally, you see the person, pass a physical judgment, and then you decide whether or not to get to know them.” But online, Pollock says, “You get to know them first and eventually you swap pictures. People usually don’t get into relationships until they have a picture.” Though Lillian had received a snapshot of her Internet beau, she claims it bore little resemblance to the real...
Laura D'Andrea Tyson didn't accept her new job because of the weather. After all, who'd swap sunny California for bleak Britain? Instead, Tyson - who was U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser from 1993 to 1996 - carefully weighed the pluses and minuses of a move from the dean's office at the University of California's Haas School of Business to the London Business School. "Weather isn't everything," says Tyson, who concluded that London is the place to be - a center for culture, commerce, the arts, business and world trade. Her task: to lead...