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...Edging Toward Peace BURUNDI President Domitien Ndayizeye and the leader of the main rebel group, Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), signed a peace deal in Pretoria. The agreement, which specifies how the FDD will be incorporated into the transitional government, the army and the police, is the latest attempt to end a decade of bloody ethnic conflict. Test of Strength JAPAN Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi dissolved the Lower House of Parliament and called a snap national election for Nov. 9, in what he called a test of popular support for his economic reforms. If Koizumi's Liberal Democratic...
...themselves, the movie becomes more and more over the top, but the strong acting keeps it from becoming a cheap, cautionary after-school special. But the key is Holly Hunter, playing Wood’s divorced mother. She embodies a mother who is both easy to hate and rebel against and then, finally, to come back to in an ending that lets the audience forgive all her maternal mistakes in the aura of the true love she shares with her daughter...
...themselves, the movie becomes more and more over the top, but the strong acting keeps it from becoming a cheap, cautionary after-school special. But the key is Holly Hunter, playing Wood’s divorced mother. She embodies a mother who is both easy to hate and rebel against and then, finally, to come back to in an ending that lets the audience forgive all her maternal mistakes in the aura of the true love she shares with her daughter...
...COLOMBIA Briton Matthew Scott emerged safe from the jungle 12 days after escaping armed kidnappers who took him and seven other foreigners hostage on Sept. 12. Scott,19, who evaded his captors by leaping down a ravine, was found by Indian tribespeople. The government has blamed one of the rebel groups operating in the area for the kidnapping. The Big Thaw CANADA Scientists from the University of Alaska and Quebec's Laval University announced that the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest in the Arctic - has broken up. The researchers said this was proof the process of climate change...
...themselves, the movie becomes more and more over the top, but the strong acting keeps it from becoming a cheap, cautionary after-school special. But the key is Holly Hunter, playing Wood’s divorced mother. She embodies a mother who is both easy to hate and rebel against and then, finally, to come back to in an ending that lets the audience forgive all her maternal mistakes in the aura of the true love she shares with her daughter. (Alex S. Wasserstein...