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Give Peace A Month January saw peace threatening to break out in a number of global hot spots, as if world leaders had made a collective New Year's resolution for harmony. India and Pakistan - who not so long ago were at the nuclear brink over Kashmir - met for warm talks in Islamabad and promised to keep talking. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared the commitment to talk a victory "for all those peace-loving people of the world." Syria and Turkey also seem to have gotten over long-standing territorial feuds: last week, Bashar Assad became the first Syrian leader...
...Milk Turns Sour Italian dairy giant Parmalat teetered on the brink of insolvency as prosecutors opened an investigation into a €4 billion hole in its accounts. Authorities seeking evidence of fraud raided the office of a Parmalat subsidiary's auditors...
Despite playing a strong game, the Crimson found itself on the brink of its first loss since that fateful night in Duluth last year and had to climb back from two deficits and settle...
...training for those moments; and both epic sweep and powerful detail to the big battles. By way of contrast, there is a handsome geometric austerity to the way Zwick and his director of photography, John Toll, show court life and intimate life in a Japan trembling on the brink of modernity...
...season has arrived so early and fear that a second wave in the traditional post-Christmas period could stretch health services to the brink. - By Kate Noble Ebb Tide FRANCE Floods that killed at least six people and forced 15,000 from their homes in southern France receded at the week's end. But three days of heavy rains and high winds left 250,000 people without drinking water and 37,000 without electricity. President Jacques Chirac pledged €12 million for the stricken region. Consuming Passion GERMANY Computer expert Armin Meiwes confessed at the opening of his murder trial...