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...Colombo. While uncompromising, the LTTE proposals were only a starting point for negotiations, the diplomat stresses. Moreover, for the first time the Tigers explicitly withdrew their claim to create a separate nation in the north and east of the country. "[Kumaratunga] has erased at a stroke the personal rapport and confidence built up between the Tigers and members of the government," says Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, executive director of Sri Lanka's nongovernmental Center for Policy Alternatives. "At best, the peace process is in cold storage. At worst, anything could happen...
...when Countess Simonetta Brandolini d'Adda, an American who has lived in Florence with her Italian husband for 30 years, saw the need to help protect and preserve the city's staggering cultural legacy, she thought of her own countrymen. "So many Americans have a special rapport with Florence," says Brandolini, who sells and rents out luxury Italian properties through her real-estate agency, The Best in Italy. "They come back to Florence all the time." Thus in 1998 was born Friends of Florence, fashioned after the nonprofit art and architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington...
...friendly rapport between interviewer and interviewee quickly disappeared, with Matthews berating Gephardt on his decision to vote in favor of the Iraq war, hardly allowing the Democrat to get a word in edgewise...
DIED. BILL SHOEMAKER, 72, Hall of Fame jockey known as "the Shoe"; in his sleep; in San Marino, Calif. Born prematurely at 2 lbs., he grew to 4 ft. 11 in. and 98 lbs.--small even for a jockey. With his gentle, almost motionless style, he had a unique rapport with his horses and, said trainer Charlie Wittingham, "bothered a horse less than any other rider." In 41 years he won 11 Triple Crown events and an impressive 22% of his races overall. In 1986, aboard Ferdinand, he became the oldest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby. A year after...
...moments like this, Gershon’s rapport with the audience was electric. In response to shouts of love from the audience, she responded spunkily, “I love you, too, baby,” and, at another shout of devotion, she pointed to the audience member and called out, “Definitely—I’ve been waiting...