Separatist rebels and locals have begun tentative recovery efforts, bringing fire engines to put out blazes.
In a telephone call on Monday, the chairmen of the Bush and Gore campaigns began tentative negotiations on debates.
The raid on the television network came as both the Egyptian and Israeli governments began tentative steps to repair the diplomatic breach between the awkward allies after the embassy attack on Friday night.
Some of the first official postwar contacts with Vietnam developed a decade after the end of the fighting when the American and Vietnamese militaries began tentative cooperation that gradually strengthened as the search for missing American soldiers progressed.
China began tentative preparations for a national celebration today as it waited for the International Olympic Committee's decision Friday on whether Beijing will play host to the 2008 Summer Games.
This appears to represent a defeat for UNITA, whose leader, Jonas Savimbi, was shot dead by government troops in February.See article: Peace in Angola Zimbabwe's opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), began tentative talks with the party of Robert Mugabe, who blatantly stole an election last month.
Although Zuckerman does not directly help Silk, he begins tentative investigations on behalf of his own book, "The Human Stain," a title that clearly refers not just to the taint left upon this earth by our species but also to the pigmentation that so arbitrarily colors human skin.
Much like the strategy pursued by Deng Xiaoping in the transformation of Red China into an economic colossus, the Castro brothers and their flunkies have begun tentative economic reforms meant to unleash the natural entrepreneurial energy of the Cuban people, squashed but not extinguished by years of the ruthless application of orthodox Marxist-Leninist policies at the hands of Fidel.
In 1978, American culture was just beginning a tentative examination, through the prisms of Vietnam and Watergate, of the country's myriad mid-century sins.
