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Those who wonder what impact the landslide Hamas electoral victory will have on "the peace process" are missing the point: There is currently no peace process under way between Israel and the Palestinians, nor has there been for the past five years. Israel says it won't negotiate with an "an armed terror organisation that calls for Israel's destruction," but it's not as if it had really been negotiating with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas before Wednesday's election. Substantive political negotiations between the two sides have not been held since January 2001, shortly before Ariel Sharon was elected...
...Little wonder that the market in 2004 generated $1.5 billion in sales, triple 2003's, according to Ragatz Associates, a consulting and market-research firm in Eugene, Ore. That kind of volume is beginning to pay off for the hospitality industry's big guns--Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt, among others--which have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high...
...watched the demonstrations this weekend marking the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and wonder at their familiarity; the candlelight vigil in front of the Supreme Court, the masses on the mall and in cities across the country, the urgent hope that protesters express as they see the fight breaking in their favor: John Roberts. Sam Alito. New laws in multiple states that are bound to wind up being challenged, so that the next battle is bound to be waged before a more sympathetic High Court...
...affecting meaningful change may be extremely slim or nonexistent altogether. Nevertheless, we forfeit any such opportunities if we abandon our hope in their existence. I often think back to the MLKs of our history—mere mortals who lived in eras of similar, implicit hopelessness—and wonder what our world would look like today if they had given in to those who argued that their fights for freedom were futile. Against such fatalism it is our responsibility to dream and articulate alternatives. I apologize for the perhaps rampant idealism manifest in these words, but here at Harvard...
...caravan arrived, it was set upon like Harvard students on Wyclef tickets—on opposite day. As pizza boxes fell empty to the floor, so did injured undergrads (including the several dozen trampled physicists in Leverett). In light of this reaction, we can’t help but wonder whether the pizza sparks more conflict than it solves...