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...Since signing the Oslo accord of 1993, the Israeli settlement population has doubled, displacing Palestinians and expropriating their land and water sources. A network of roads for the exclusive use of Israelis now connects the settlements, separating the remaining Palestinian territory into a patchwork of isolated enclaves. With the vast military and economic support of the United States, these actions place Israel on a course of permanent occupation. We believe this occupation is not only unjust and injurious to the Palestinians but also very harmful to Israel. Much of the danger that Israel now faces comes from the misery...
...terrorism is the result of globalization and the polarization of the “haves” and the “have-nots” (itself a curious conclusion, given that the hijackers of Sept. 11 were educated, middle-class residents of first-world countries, and that the vast majority of the “have-nots,” like those in non-Arab Africa, East and South Asia, and South America, have no special desire to blow us up), Kilfoyle declares that Europeans “look for a multilateralist approach to these dire challenges, whilst...
Grade inflation became a hot issue on campus last year after the release of a report indicating that undergraduate grades were higher than ever before. According to data released last fall, over half of grades were A’s or A-minuses, prompting vast media attention and a nationwide debate on grade inflation at Harvard and elsewhere...
...members acknowledge that the IOP’s vast size and labyrinthine network of resources obligate them to make that effort...
...thorny mess of election reform, ironically, seems to inflame voters less than questions of personal health or economic security. "If election reform doesn't pass in time to affect 2004," says Tolchin, "the vast majority of the public will just scratch their heads and move on. There's just no critical mass pushing for election reform...