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Altogether, there were about 100 of us, President Mbeki included, around a roaring fire.

But, by aiding the Taliban, Pakistan is playing with fire, because there are now also Pakistani Talibans who pose a threat to Pakistan.

Firewalls won't work, if kerosene is simultaneously thrown on the fire, as Europe seems committed to doing: there is no example of a large economy - and Europe is the world's largest - recovering as a result of austerity.

The recent photographs of detainees being abused and sexually degraded in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison added fuel to the fire.

The failure of China to move more quickly to encourage higher domestic spending commensurate with its higher incomes added fuel to the fire.

To be effective, such a cease-fire must contain a monitoring mechanism.

Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen has called on Palestinian extremists to disarm, or at least to accept a prolonged cease-fire, but they have responded with more terrorist attacks.

Now financial institutions, too, are coming under fire for their involvement with fossil fuels.

But, with the passage of time, the Barroso-led Commission has also come under fire for being unadventurous and lacklustre.

But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire-sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).

Hamas initially reacted skeptically to the statehood bid, but supported it after the cease-fire, owing to its expectation that it will be able to exploit Palestine's upgraded status.

Eiland even advised Israel's government to recognize Hamas's rule in Gaza, lift the siege, and negotiate a prolonged cease-fire directly with the movement.

On November 25, 2003, India and Pakistan agreed to a cease-fire along the Line of Control (LoC), the international border that divides Indian Kashmir from Pakistani Kashmir, as well as the actual ground control (AGPL) in strategic Siachen region.

The cease-fire thus covers a huge area: the 778-kilometer LoC, the 150-kilometer AGPL and the 198-kilometer international border.

The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest-fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.

Nonetheless, the Court has come under fire for three alleged failings.

But the accord had a major flaw: the absence of a cease-fire.

But, as with today's toxic assets, there was no market, and rapid disinvestment would have triggered fire-sale prices, depressing all asset values in the economy and resulting in more bank failures.

CAMBRIDGE - G-20 leaders who scoff at the United States' proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire.

No one lights a fire every night inside their house for fun; they do so because they lack the electricity needed to stay warm and to cook.

And, in 1969, America's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River caught on fire.

Chinese garment factories have repeatedly experienced disasters on a par with the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City a century ago, which killed 146 workers, all young women.

There are Christians who know all about the fire and brimstone of the Book of Revelation, but seem not to have heard the instructions about generosity in the Sermon on the Mount.

Yet as the example of the Triangle fire suggests, the China's experience is not unprecedented.