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ZIMBABWE Mugabe Hangs On Apparently fatigued by the disputed election that saw President Robert Mugabe re-elected, Zimbabweans largely ignored opposition calls for a three-day general strike. Mugabe was pressured by South Africa and Nigeria to take defeated opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a government of national unity as his country was suspended from the Commonwealth for a year. As violence against white farmers and opposition supporters continued, Tsvangirai was taken to court to be charged with plotting Mugabe's assassination...
Members of the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA) will leave for Nicaragua today to conduct a three-day long government simulation summit for high school students, the only one of its kind in Latin America...
...timing might - again. As in the early '90s, "the economic outlook for Europe is pretty unclear," says BNP Paribas' Reed. "They're adding something like 50% extra capacity when we've seen both slowing in European economies and several other parks open." Are consumers ready to spring for that three-day, two-night short break at Disney, or would they be just as happy to take the kids for an afternoon at a smaller, less expensive, less splashy park nearby...
...Collins has just wrapped up his monthly three-day stint in Japan. After round-the-clock meetings, he sounds tired but pleased. "Something extraordinary happened," he says, then adds with a chuckle, "but I can't tell you about it for at least another month...
...isolated moderates in the Bush Administration eager to clean up the mess in the Middle East. The 17-month-old cycle of killing in Israel and the occupied territories has become a death spiral from which there seems to be no escape. More than 50 people died in a three-day exchange of suicide attacks and air strikes that left even hardened veterans of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict numb with disbelief. As it always does, escalation brought with it the perverse hope that both sides might finally be persuaded to find a way out of the madness. Late last week...