Word: cements
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...Ramallah earlier in the week. But the violent chain of events of the past week may have generated a momentum of its own, leaving any cease-fire vulnerable. After everything that has transpired over the past six months, it's unlikely that these two sides right now could cement a truce capable of surviving a brace of suicide bombings - and the suicide bombers would not be party to any truce...
...This is an important tactical victory for the government, but the rebels have been repelled rather than destroyed. They have retreated, either into the mountains or back into Kosovo. The real challenge is now political - whether the government can cement its military gains by making new efforts to address the grievances of Macedonia's Albanian population. What is at stake now is the very survival of a multi-ethnic Macedonia, and the crisis is not yet over, even though there may be a brief respite. If the government is unable to address the political grievances that the rebels have exploited...
...then it's back to "What have you done lately?" Of course the tag is with you forever but no one in this short-attention-span town remembers your résumé. They remember that you gave great "headers." "Headers" are the snappy soundbites by which you cement your relationships (I use the word loosely) in a crowded party...
...Tiananmen massacre. Liu says her brother Fang Jue?who called for direct elections in 1997 and is serving a four-year term on murky charges of illegal business dealings?has suffered frostbite while in solitary confinement where he has spent much of the winter sleeping on the bare cement of his sub-freezing cell. Guards denied her request to bring him a blanket. "I was so angry but felt so powerless," says Liu, a ticket seller in a Beijing park for the past 20 years. In their letter the two invited i.o.c. members to meet them personally for "a true...
...alliance align. A procession of European foreign ministers have visited Washington and have gone out of their way to make nice with Bush in public. Last week, Blair was the first European head of government to make the trip, staying overnight at Camp David for informal talks, eager to cement Britain's special role as stalwart friend of Washington (already proved in the bombing raid against Iraq) and as bridge between the U.S. and Europe. On the most neuralgic transatlantic dispute, missile defense, Blair had racked up some points in advance by suggesting that his colleagues in Europe keep...