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...allowed to arrest and detain Iraqi nationals. U.S. and Iraqi officials have repeatedly said a deal was near. Other reports have cited Iraqi officials saying a deal could be reached in the coming days. But talks continue to flounder as impasse after impasse remained unresolved. Hopes for a breakthrough waned further in recent days as the Iraqi parliament, which must approve any long-term agreement, adjourned for a month-long recess, which will be followed by the month-long Islamic holiday of Ramadan...
Sharif and Zardari's breakthrough is likely to prove popular, and may even help offset their failures to arrest an overwhelming economic meltdown. It will, for now at least, strengthen their coalition, which constantly threatens to collapse. But they should be prepared for a fight. Musharraf has gambled away a lot to remain in office - he has given up his uniform, allowed his enemies to return from exile, and even overseen a free and fair election where he was dealt several blows. He is unlikely to give up what remains of his power easily. This is a man who said...
Hair was a breakthrough not just in themes but also in form. The story is little more than a series of vignettes revolving around a communal-living group headed by the fiery, free-spirited Berger and the more conflicted refugee from Queens, Claude. (A New York Times critic, quaintly, said the show reminded him of 1920s off-Broadway revues--"the bright impudence of The Grand Street Follies and The Garrick Gaieties.") The score by Galt MacDermot--a musician who was nearing 40, loved jazz and favored suits and ties, the straight man out in this band of hippie-artists...
Despite their insistence, the breakthrough and continuing difficulty in getting the egg cells required for therapeutic cloning suggests that reprogramming may provide greater hope for stem cell therapies...
There was a sense of inevitability about the latest collapse in global trade talks. Negotiators, meeting in Geneva, had seemed optimistic a few days earlier, hopeful of a breakthrough in the seven-year-old Doha round. But as so often, hope was no match for the strength of entrenched positions. After the breakdown, there were the usual murmurings that trade ministers might get together again to salvage something from the wreckage. But most observers found it hard to escape the conclusion that, this time, Doha really was dead...