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Call it global courtship by an avid Chinese suitor.

The people of Guatemala are impatient to see progress in the negotiating process.

It deeply polarized a society yearning for a new inclusiveness.

I also look forward very much to working with the Peacebuilding Commission in future.

That people have this yearning to be part of the overall one again.

We recall the nostalgia with which we heralded the end of the era and the concomitant universal aspirations to a world of peace and prosperity.

Yet today the yearning for peace in that region surpasses anything known in the past.

You focus on the person, you obsessively think about them, you crave them, you distort reality, your willingness to take enormous risks to win this person.

Will this yearning travel beyond the Nile, as it did from Tunis to Cairo? This question haunts other Arab portals of power.

But there is another, darker side to this craving, which is the wish to see idols dragged through the mud in vicious gossip magazines, divorce courts, and so on.

Indeed, this yearning for change is why Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, may reach the presidency in a country that experienced only a scant influx of foreigners in the twentieth century.

Y2K, the dotcom bubble, stressing about whose party you're going to go to as the clock strikes midnight, before the champagne goes flat, and then there's that inchoate yearning that was felt, I think, by many, that the millennium, that the year 2000, should mean more, more than just a two and some zeroes.

Nothing can be more distressing than the disappearance of one apos s child the constant hope that each day brings of the longed for return, the dashing of the same hopes as the sun sets without news, and the inability to mourn and come to terms with death which might at least resolve the pain of the relentless incertitude of days, months and years of waiting.