Word: truce
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When it came to making a truce, however, the two sides appeared to be using about 0% of their power. It wasn't from lack of encouragement. Since the collapse of peace talks at Camp David in July, the U.S. has been losing credibility with Arafat--something that opened the door to a whole host of other diplomats. As a result, when last week's fighting began to look truly out of control, everyone from U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rushed to toss in his 2[cents...
...yesterday's violence in the Middle East appears to end hopes that Israel and the Palestinians could soon negotiate a truce and bring an end to 15 days of bloodshed that have left at least 95 people dead--most of them Palestinians and Israeli Arabs...
...Steve Earle/"Transcendental Blues" Speaking of Dukes, this rambunctious tunesmith's latest offering finds him striking a happy truce between his various, sometimes adversarial personae. Typically, Earle's affect has alternated between Good Steve and Bad Steve: On traditional and more introspective material, he tends toward the former, but when he rocks out he often adopts a much raunchier vocal delivery, as if singing like he's gargling with Valvoline will somehow boost his hardass cred. For the most part, Earle sounds at ease and unaffected on his most eclectic offering to date, allowing us to focus on the highly...
...ready for some football? Does anybody ever answer "no" to that question? Certainly not any of us here at the spartan training camp that is the TIME.com nerve center, a happy place where religion and politics have reached an uneasy truce but the NFL is welcome at any hour. Returning for a second straight year are Long Island Slim, Mean Josie Greene and the K.C. Line, fresh off a rigorous off-season conditioning program and some cracklin' spring minicamp performances and ready to tackle the big questions facing the league in Week One, like "What gives with those new Rams...
...Washington are worried that they have been robbed of one of their central themes. They concede that choosing Lieberman is the smartest thing Gore has done in this campaign, and what happened to Bush on the trail last week helps explain why--because Bush came close to calling a truce in the character...