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Washington's point man in Iraq believes a significant pullout of U.S. troops this year remains a possibility, despite a recent upsurge in sectaran violence that has left the country teetering on the edge of a civil war. However, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad says a pullout is predicated on Iraq's leaders being able to set aside their bickering and get the long-stalled political process back on track...
...give them a push, Khalilzad is advocating a new initiative based on an old-fashioned solution to family squabbles: lock them up in a room and don't let them out until they have sorted out their differences. The ambassador told TIME that over the next few days, he hopes to persuade Iraq's main political players to participate in a conference - possibly away from Baghdad, even away from Iraq - where they would be coaxed into arriving at a common political agenda to be administered by an all-party coalition government...
...unclear how Shi'ite and Sunni parties will respond to the ambassador's invitation, but the Kurds - Washington's oldest allies in Iraq - are likely to be amenable. "All the doors to a political solution are closed," an influential Kurdish leader told TIME. "This may just be the drastic step necessary to open them up again...
...recent years, Lancôme has preferred a bevy of faces to a single girl. Diane Kruger and Elizabeth Jagger star in the brand's advertising campaigns, while Inès Sastre has represented Lancôme for a decade. She replaced Lancôme's most famous ambassador, Isabella Rossellini, whose collaboration with the brand in the '80s and '90s transformed her from a model known as the daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini into an international personality. It also cemented Lancôme's position as a global beauty powerhouse with the blockbuster fragrance Tr?...
...ultimatum to comply with IAEA demands that it suspend uranium enrichment activities. But IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei urged all parties to cool the rhetoric and apply themselves to the search for an agreement: On Tuesday, Vice President Dick Cheney threatened "meaningful consequences" for Iran's defiance, while Iran's ambassador to the IAEA warned that Iran was equally capable of inflicting "harm and pain" on the U.S. in retaliation...