something After a bloody election season marked by beatings and assassinations of opposition supporters, Zimbabwe’s feuding political leaders met face to face on Monday to sign an agreement laying out terms for negotiations to wrest their land out of political chaos.

While the accord itself was a modest step in light of Zimbabwe’s collapse and the many hurdles to a final resolution, the sight of President Robert Mugabe in the same room as his nemesis, Morgan Tsvangirai, was a striking departure from the political bloodletting of recent months and the deep antipathy between the two men. They even shook hands.

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