Word: quiets
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...back one or two or three of their own captives, even dead ones. (In 2004, Israel swapped 429 prisoners in exchange for an Israeli businessman and the remains of three Israeli soldiers.) The Palestinians now have a tremendous interest in prisoner swaps since the Israelis have achieved the relative quiet of the past few years in part by arresting huge numbers of suspected terrorists and packing jails with more than 9,000 detainees. Securing the release of many of them, by negotiating the return of the Israeli corporal, would make heroes of Hamas. And it would...
...where might this lead? Is anything remotely approaching quiet, if not quite peace, possible in a place where all the actors see gain in continuing to fight...
...Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet as a you-know-what. --By Julie Norwell...
...sought to cozy up to the United States, Iran ordered Hizballah to call off its rocket attacks on Israel's northern border. Iran's then Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi flew to Beirut, and made an uncharacteristic public call for Hizballah to "exercise self-restraint." Within days, the border went quiet. But with an agitator like Ahmadinejad at the helm, Iran is more likely to watch the conflict burn than help to put it out, all the while playing to the crowds in the streets...
...said Matt Towery, Georgia Republican pollster and former state representative. "Anyone who thinks Cynthia McKinney is stupid or crazy doesn't know the term crazy like a fox." Towery noted that McKinney has not been running ads in her campaign: "She knows this go-round that if she stays quiet, keeps to herself, that she's likely to get a pass." One indication of MicKinney's chances: Towery's firm is doing no polling on the race - which it would likely do, he said, if "we thought that there was any chance of an upset...