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About halfway down the block, I stopped. In the driveway of a house across the street lay a woman stretched out on the ground--asleep, I thought--under an umbrella...
Fisher finally decided to return to the Law School as a professor, ready to put onto paper the negotiation theories he had already been practicing. In 1979, Fisher became director and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, which has also worked with the Program on Negotiation, an umbrella group composed of negotiation researchers from Harvard, Tufts and M.I.T. that was founded...
Conceivably, the U.N. could one day throw its umbrella over a new peacekeeping (i.e., Iraq-containment) force in the Middle East; it has already voted to dispatch 20,000 soldiers and civilians from various countries to police a prospective settlement in Cambodia. For some time, though, its primary tool to enforce its decisions will probably continue to be the embargo. Not long ago, such economic sanctions were considered useless. But that thinking is changing. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, formerly the loudest voice in the sanctions-never-succeed school, stated last week, "It is just becoming obvious that some...
...Sometimes he talks to inanimate objects, like trees, and sometimes he talks to animals that aren't there," explains Gigante lawyer Michael Shapiro. An official who tried to serve Gigante with a subpoena once entered his mother's apartment and found the gangster naked in the shower -- with an umbrella over his head...
...even with an American security umbrella, the Saudis would find it difficult to go all out against Iraq. The underpopulated kingdom would be risking attack by Saddam, from bombs, rockets and poison-gas-filled missiles to invasion. More than that, the Saudis would be rejecting attempts at an "Arab solution" and accepting the high-profile alliance with the U.S. they have always tried to avoid. Saudi diplomats said privately last week that such an alliance was dangerous for them because of America's links with Israel...