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...RESIGNED. EASON JORDAN, 44, CNN's chief news executive; amid a furor over his apparent suggestion last month that coalition forces in Iraq had deliberately killed journalists; in Atlanta. He later backtracked, saying he was referring to journalists "shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy...
...From the bottom of our hearts, we are sorry." EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, apologizing to Egypt after tank soldiers on the border in Gaza shot and killed three Egyptian policeman they mistook for Palestinian militants...
...belong in France, or says the same thing to any of my relatives elsewhere in the Diaspora. "Go back to Israel" was a message I heard occasionally growing up, both from Zionist emissaries promoting immigration and from rightwing anti-Semites hostile to my anti-apartheid views, which they somehow mistook to be uniquely Jewish. Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live...
...foreign policy in the early Bush years, with the war in Iraq as its ultimate goal. Bamford asserts that the backgrounds, political philosophies and experiences of many of the hard-liners helped to hardwire the pro-Israel mind-set in the Bush inner circle and suggests that Washington mistook Israel's interests for its own when it pre-emptively invaded Iraq last year...
...counter the judges' feedback, which often amounts to personal critiques: that DeGarmo is too girlish or London too staid. On one shopping trip for show-night clothes--the Idols get $450 a week for duds--stylist Miles Siggins encouraged London to "funk up" her look, saying that she sometimes mistook boring for classy. Conversely, the coaches discouraged Trias from selecting edgier music. As Trias puts it, "I had to learn to be myself...