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...most poignant moment of Mary Beth Carroll's CNN interview was when she addressed her daughter's kidnappers in Iraq, saying, "Jill's welfare depends upon you." To those not familiar with the Middle East, that might seem nothing more than as a passing remark, but I'll bet that phrase makes the headlines in the Arab media. The appeal to the Iraqi and Arab sense of responsibility for one's guest is bound to resonate in the region...
...anything that Mary Beth Carroll said is likely to have any impact on her daughter's kidnappers, her appeal to their sense of responsibility for Jill is the best bet...
...state funeral, no national emotional catharsis, no clear transfer of power. But more important, there was no political confusion or panic. Leadership was quietly assumed by Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert. "Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics," Avi Dichter, former director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency, told me. "Our great national leader is crippled--and there is no crisis. Power is passed quietly. Our enemies don't stir. Our stock market barely moves. It says a lot for the strength of our democracy...
...ninth location, on the campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The setting is appropriate, since the museum traces changes in the practice of medicine during various wars. Its collection of artifacts includes the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and Paul Revere's dental equipment (bet you didn't know that in addition to being a silversmith, Revere was a dentist...
...between were plenty of lies, but America ultimately forgave him because he went on television and spoke sincerely. That strategy doesn't fly in Britain. And I don't think Kennedy will get very far if he writes a Lohan-like ditty about the demon rum. His best bet is to say he's sorry, disappear for a while, and come back with a new career; perhaps as a newspaper columnist, where he can throw his own stones. As for me, I'm going to stop reading stories about celebrity confessions - tomorrow, I swear...