Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That is one reason the Administration is trying so hard to find a pathway to peace. Its strategy is still coming into focus. Says a senior White House aide: "We're in an atmosphere where everyone is waiting for someone else to go first." The first big breakthrough Powell needs is to convince Sharon and Arafat that they can wait no longer. --With reporting by Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem, Jamil Hamad/Bethlehem, Nasser Abu Bakr/Jenin, Scott MacLeod/Cairo and James Carney and John F. Dickerson/Washington
Raitt has never been what you would call inhibited, but these days she's feeling positively frisky, to use her word. She's not a pop star anymore, as she was in the early 1990s, after her breakthrough album Nick of Time sold 5 million copies and earned her three of her nine Grammys. But she has just released the eclectic and rollicking new album, Silver Lining, her 16th, and is out on the road, where she loves to be even after 30 years of touring. At 52, she's fit and proudly sober, having quit a drinking habit...
...expect a breakthrough. Israeli officials say they plan to hold their positions in Ramallah and Bethlehem until the surrender of Palestinian militants believed to be holed up there. And even after Israeli troops leave, they may go back into West Bank towns to stage "pinpoint operations" against terrorists trying to regroup. But the Israeli offensive may only invite a more savage Palestinian response. Militants belonging to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades told TIME they are preparing to avenge last week's arrest of top Arafat deputy Marwan Barghouti. And they believe the U.S. should share the pain. "Now," says a senior...
...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...