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...Gibson has already begun to atone publicly for the anti-Semitic tirade he unleashed while being arrested last week on a drunk-driving charge in Malibu, Calif. "I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said," the Passion of the Christ director said in a statement, adding that he would like to meet with Jewish leaders to "discern the appropriate path for healing...
...Smoking cigarettes and a hookah, eating humus and peaches, we argue our cases with passion. The real threat, we conclude, is Iran. But how and when should Israel confront Iran? There are many moral and tactical questions that come up during our debates, and easy answers are not to be found. But this much is certain: We all want “peace time?...
Take “Autrefois,” a Francophone ballad and the record’s most understated track. As strained cello and Spanish guitar pepper the undercurrent of snare drum and legato piano, Forbes murmurs with a distant passion. It doesn’t matter whether you can understand the lyrics, whose protagonist “whisper[s] sweet nothings to all the girls of France” and “hopes that they respond.” Forbes’s voice, echoing cavernously under heavy reverb, oozes unrequited love and regret entirely...
...Texas oilman, 78, hopes his wife's passion for saving horses turns out as well as her push to get animals out of New Orleans after Katrina. Of the 800 animals airlifted out after the storm, he says over 70% have since been reunited with their owners. If he had been told to leave his dog, Murdock, behind in the storm waters, says Pickens, "I'd yell at them to pitch me an inner tube, and I'd take my chances with Murdock." Is this is a kinder, gentler Pickens than we're used to seeing? He laughs and says...
...fight Israel ultimately can never win. Worse, precisely because the collateral damage of such a war is so immense--witness the areas of southern Lebanon that have been turned into a wasteland of shattered masonry--Israel risks creating a new generation of Arabs that hates it with a passion. By trying to guarantee its security today, Israel may be merely threatening its security tomorrow...