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There's a saying among recovering alcoholics about how addiction reinforces itself: "The man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man ..." One wonders if the abduction reports are a runaway habit whose internal momentum can get the best of reporters and editors, flattening everything else that lies before it: stories of war and preparations for war, of corruption among the elites, of floods and droughts. What, no kidnapped kids this morning? Well, find some...
...ownership stake. After 9/11, few other investors would touch the airlines, which have lost two-thirds of their value in the past year. But ever since the Continental deal--which brought Bonderman and his partners 10 times their original investment--Texas Pacific has made a profitable habit of picking up airlines so far down on their luck that nobody wants them. "We're contrarian by nature," says co-founder Jim Coulter. "On many of our best deals, friends in the business call to say, 'If it wasn't you guys, we'd think it was crazy...
...different countries, making enemies both Arab and Israeli. Most of his victims were Israeli and European civilians, killed in an encyclopedia of terroristic manners: massacred at airports and in restaurants, assassinated in their homes or blown apart in nightclubs and on airliners. Abu Nidal also made a habit of killing moderate Arab and Palestinian politicians, including a number of Yasser Arafat's top lieutenants...
...that within moments of a snatching, across countless radios, televisions and even electronic highway signs, the kidnapping stories have a new immediacy. They call for involvement, not just outrage. They enlist the audience as participants, and even potential heroes. Still, one wonders if the abduction reports are a runaway habit whose internal momentum can get the best of reporters and editors, flattening all else that lies before it: stories of war and preparations for war, of corruption among the ?lites, of floods and droughts. What, no kidnapped kids today? Well, find some! That they're far too easy to find...
...been a star swimmer in high school, and he kept in shape basically out of habit,” said his Dunster blockmate, R. Aram Marks ‘02-‘04, with whom he used to run along the Charles River...