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...brainstorming on ways to convince Americans that saving Africa from financial ruin is in America's best interest. As is frequently the case with debate on Africa, the discussion eventually sagged into weary frustration. By midnight, the air had leaked out of the room and, with it, any glimmer of productivity...
...that are officially registered. In December a document issued by a party work conference, attended by the likes of President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji, declared religion in China "has moved onto the track of legalization and regularization." That doesn't sound like much, but it raised a glimmer of hope that the government might legalize some currently underground denominations. "We hope it means underground churches will be able to register and receive government protection without having to change the way they worship," says a Western diplomat...
...Washington's exhortations have for the most part proved no more effective than Prime Minister Sharon's military actions in ending armed action by militant Palestinian groups. A faint glimmer of hope followed Arafat's December call, with even the Israeli military acknowledging that a period of relative calm had followed. That, of course, was because the militants of Arafat's own Fatah organization and also radical Islamist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, had signed on. But in the absence of any paradigm-shifting breakthrough, the respite was always going to be temporary. A week into January, Hamas...
...babies often represent a last chance at salvation, a belief that somehow their innocence and purity can breathe new life into something gone dull or awry. In the giant, dysfunctional family that is modern Japan, then, the birth of a baby princess on Saturday offers, at long last, a glimmer of hope, some feel-good news to lift the collective spirit and hold out the promise of a national rejuvenation. And maybe even boost the stock market. An absurd notion, sure, but there hasn't been much of anything to cheer about in Japan for, oh, the better part...
Radiohead BRITAIN Hailing from Oxford, this art-rock quintet spins futuristic songs about the disillusioned and the disoriented, about aliens and creeps--but often with a glimmer of hope. Key albums: OK Computer...