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...Zimbabwe Finally a Unity Government, But Huge Problems Remain After a nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...Rocket fire from Gaza had largely stopped during a five-month cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that was brokered by Egypt, but that unraveled on Nov. 4, when Israel raided Gaza to destroy a tunnel it accused Hamas of digging to conduct cross-border raids. Since then, dozens of rockets have been fired at Israel, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have responded with land and air attacks and by halting supplies that were to enter Gaza. Israel has hoped to tighten the screws on Hamas by blocking all but a trickle of aid from reaching Gaza...
...Many Latino residents have left, including almost 300 former Agriprocessors workers now serving five-month prison sentences after pleading guilty to identity-theft charges. They are expected to be deported next month. A further 45, mostly women, who were released on humanitarian grounds but required to wear electronic ankle bracelets, have not yet faced charges. Ten were permitted to return to Guatemala or Mexico. Others hope to convince the courts to allow them to remain in the United States, according to their lawyer. And many of those who eluded arrest are believed to have fled or are lying...
...five-month stretch in 1949-50, Manny was employed as Time's Cinema critic. After The Nation and The New Republic, a Time stint meant a sharp raise in pay (he was hired at an annual salary of $8,500, a hefty sum back then) but a likely loss in status among the intellectuals whose favor he craved. He may have thought his work for the magazine was beneath his standard; Negative Space includes no Time reviews. I had guessed that the gig was painful, that editors rewrote his copy into Time-speak, with its backward-running sentences, space-saving...
While May and June—the months for which data is currently unavailable—were rough for the equity markets (the S&P index fell an additional 8 percent), the endowment weathered a similarly poor five-month stretch from October to March, preserving the gains that it made from July to September...