Word: thawing
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...them. The summit could have easily deteriorated into another yanqui-bashing fest over the U.S.'s role in the global economic crisis or its antiquated trade embargo against Cuba. But Obama had even Chávez feeling "great optimism" that his nation's icy relations with the U.S. will thaw, starting with the return of each other's ambassadors, expelled last year, to Washington and Caracas...
...start waiting in lines for showers and listlessly offering to help clean up. Then we’ll have to start negotiating the gridlock of cars in the driveway; people will exchange phone numbers, the right ones or made-up ones; the snow will start to thaw and spring will start to come, and then this summer and then next year. And Ellen will have to look at her sullen, Ivy-bound son, and pick up his sister and little brother from wherever they are, and the four of them will have to look into the fridge and wonder what...
...pledge, coming just ten days after Obama's televised appeal for a "new beginning" between the U.S. and Iran, suggests the White House's efforts to thaw relations with Tehran are paying off. U.S. Afghan envoy Richard Holbrooke even met Akhundzadeh, and had what was described as "a brief and cordial exchange." (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...
...forefront ever since the ailing Fidel, 82, ceded power to Raúl, 77, last year. But this week Raúl's m.o. emerged in ways that could eventually facilitate the tentative but growing efforts in Washington and Havana to end 50 years of hemispheric cold war and thaw U.S.-Cuba relations. (See TIME articles about Cuba...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, who visited Syria last month. The flurry of diplomatic excitement caused by Clinton's public handshake with Moallem, followed by Tuesday's announcement that Washington will soon send two high-level envoys to Damascus for talks, is both a welcome sign of thaw and a reminder of how little common ground currently exists between the two countries...