Within Mr. Verrone and Mr. Young's own union, a growing contingent, many with rich careers now on hold, is eyeing the directors' settlement as a path to immediate peace, even though its terms fall short of the writers' demands.
WOODIE KING Producing director, Henry Street Settlement The attack on the World Trade Center has changed the nature of philanthropy in New York.
"The world knows we'll make up that energy shortfall somewhere," said Spence Gerber, director of settlements at the I.S.O.
Mark Schonfeld, an SEC director, said: "This settlement achieves everything we sought to accomplish in pursuing this case.
They made it costly for the government," Hagit Ofran, director of the Settlement Watch program of Peace Now, said.
MARGARITA ROSA New York, July 5 , 2001The writer, executive director of Grand Street Settlement, was New York State human rights commissioner under Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Hagit Ofran, the director of the Settlement Watch project of the once influential Peace Now movement, told me, "Our fight today is not so much to persuade the Israeli public that we need two states.
Which is also why Ms. Warren is the most logical person to be the agency's initial director: if the settlement does come to pass, no one will understand its terms better, or have a better feel for how to enforce them.
When asked about the contracting process, Michael Zisser, the executive director of University Settlement on the Lower East Side, said, "Have you read Kafka?" Mr. Zisser, whose organization has about two dozen contracts for child care, literary programs and mental health assistance, added, "It's almost amusing, except that it takes so much time".
If there is any element that will forge community, it will probably be the community center, which is to be owned and operated jointly by the University Settlement and the Y.M.C.A. "Everything in it was requested by the community," said Michael Zisser, executive director of the settlement.
