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The first round of talks, held in Beijing Tuesday, was largely devoted to trading accusations over last week's naval skirmishes and complaining about the accommodations in the hotel, except for the part about the hotel.
Naval skirmishes ensued between the two powers, but at the end of the war of succession between Portugal and Castile, the wide-ranging Treaty of Alcaçovas ended Lisbon’s claims to the Fortunate Islands.
After a few skirmishes and much negotiation, a peace agreement was reached.
NYT op-ed columnist Frank Rich, who reported on his share of culture-war skirmishes as the paper's chief theater critic in the 1980s and early '90s, weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Brooklyn Museum's week-old exhibit "Sensation."
The great strength of this book is the way Branch zooms in on the dozens of local skirmishes, from Greenwood, Miss.