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...breakthrough game for Shakir, who had been mired in a 1-for-30 slump entering the weekend...
...past decade (excepting a one-off duet with dour artiste Nick Cave), and U.S. audiences have roundly ignored her. Her new album, Fever, sold more copies in its first week of release than all her previous albums did over the past 11 years. What makes her breakthrough even more confusing is that it comes just as America is closing the window on a four-year period of relentless teen pop. So why Kylie...
...Nobody is expecting a breakthrough from Powell's mission. He's being sent mostly because not sending him may carry an even higher cost. Still, the President's comments and the Secretary of State's mission suggests the past week's events have stung Washington into assuming greater responsibility for the fate of the Middle East - even against its better political judgment...
...Israelis and Palestinians ever learn to live together? Just as the two parties edged toward a cease-fire last week, three Palestinian suicide bombings in three days put that tentative progress in peril. While the bodies pile up and the diplomats scramble to find a breakthrough, it is people like the Simons and the Zeidans who have to make the most difficult choices. If the initiative is to be taken away from zealots on both sides, politicians will need a shove from those with the greatest stake in achieving a placid life. The Simons and the Zeidans ache for normality...
ANGOLA Rebels Back Peace Senior members of the UNITA rebel movement endorsed ongoing cease-fire talks with the government, strengthening hopes of a political breakthrough to end the 27-year civil war. unita loyalists in the Angolan parliament approved negotiations led by the group's secretary-general in the eastern city of Leuna, and the group's representatives in Europe issued a supporting statement. The country's continuing insecurity was highlighted by a suspected rebel attack near the coastal city of Benguela that killed 15 people...