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...last week Zinni whittled down the two sets of demands into a single "bridging" proposal, which he presented to Sharon and Arafat the day before Passover. According to a senior U.S. State Department official, Zinni told them to make their choice. The Israelis accepted; Arafat, claiming the plan put unfair burdens on the Palestinians, rejected it. After the Netanya massacre, Arafat scrambled to give the impression that he was willing to enter a cease-fire, but no one believed him. Says a senior U.S. official: "I can't say that he's even agreed to implement the Zinni plan...
...couldn’t imagine what my family would think and how my life would have to change to accommodate things like praying five times a day,” she says. “But one day, I woke up knowing that continuing to reject the truth was unfair to myself and, more importantly, unfair to God. [I realized] that my life could end at any moment and I didn’t want to die in that state,” Cohon says. “So, I converted, which consisted very simply of saying, in Arabic...
...Education and K. Anthony Appiah in the Afro-American Studies and Philosophy Departments, who left to more accepting and appreciative environments within the past year? Rather than endeavoring to transcend the color line, the recent incident between University President Lawrence H. Summers and West has accentuated a practice of unfair treatment at Harvard...
Some of PSLM’s supporters claim a labor contract is inherently coercive. They argue that a worker’s need to survive “coerces” them into accepting the terms of an unfair agreement. But while it is true that individuals must work in order to live, and that the structure of society limits an individual’s access to employment, it does not follow that employers are somehow coercing individuals into working. These limitations are part of the natural world we inhabit, and employers offer a viable and strictly voluntary means...
...tariffs designed to protect European steel producers in the wake of surcharges decided by the U.S.E.U. tariffs of between 14.9% and 26% will apply only to imports beyond a certain quota and will be in effect for six months. Imports from developing countries will be exempt. "Unfounded, unnecessary and unfair U.S. action has forced us to take temporary steps to look after E.U. industry and E.U. workers," said trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. E.U. officials said they feared a 15 million-ton surge in steel imports blocked by planned U.S. tariffs...