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Wintour's debut cover brokered a class-mass rapprochement that informs modern fashion to this day.

The Americanization of Bangalore is a reflection of a more general rapprochement that has taken place in recent years between India and the United States.

Late last year, the Chinese government again rejected the Dalai Lama's proposal for a rapprochement that would yield greater autonomy for Tibet.

The two agreed to accelerate talks aimed at defusing the dispute over Iran's nuclear program and afterward expressed optimism at the prospect of a rapprochement that would transform the Middle East.

Especially galling to the hetman was the Russo-Polish rapprochement that followed the invasion in 1655 of Poland by Sweden, Moscow's adversary but Ukraine's potential ally (see First Northern War).

Mr. Obama also reached out to Iran's newly elected president, holding out hope for a rapprochement that would prevent the Iranian government from developing nuclear weapons and ultimately "normalize the relationship between Iran and the world".

As it heads for the series of rapprochements that will make better, happier people of Josie and her relatives, "Wide Blue Yonder" progresses through a series of sweetly comic misunderstandings.

Despite emotional scenes of reconciliation that earlier saw the Star Spangled Banner played to spine-tingling effect by a Cuban band in Revolution Square, the two leaders made clear that rapprochement had only come so far.

The separation brought the 15th seed back into the fold of the French Tennis Federation, with which both she and her father had previously had a fraught relationship; the rapprochement means that Bartoli has been working with Amélie Mauresmo, the 2006 Wimbledon champion and captain of the French Fed Cup team, whom she credits as giving her greater mental focus.

Pope Francis has begun a politically charged visit to Cuba and the United States with a call for the two former adversaries to continue down the path of rapprochement – one that the Argentine pontiff helped to pave – and set an "example of reconciliation" for the rest of the world.

Take the possibility of the US deciding to attack Iran (which, despite the first signs of a rapprochement with that member of the Axis of Evil, Blair and Bush still refuse to rule out) but the British government sticking to the idea that President Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions are best dealt with diplomatically, and stepping aside.