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But if he is to recover the goodwill of the public at large, and the Jewish and Hollywood communities specifically, Gibson has a long road ahead, say several image makers. The arduous path to redemption looks something like this:
6) Stay the course. Fifteen years after junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken went to prison for securities fraud, he is still slowly rebuilding his image as a philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a...
7) Mean it. Every publicist interviewed for this story agrees that Gibson's image can only be redeemed if he truly is sorry for the comments he made. "It takes a lot of discipline to recover from something like this," says Lehane. "Generally, you have to actually be sorry."
The transformation was swift in coming. Hamas' electoral landslide in Palestine just six months ago marked the political death of Yasser Arafat and the secular, vaguely socialist and entirely nationalist movement he represented. Hamas is fighting not to create a 23rd Arab state but, as its charter explains, to recover...
"We need machines to clear this," says a Lebanese civil defense worker. "Let the so-called civilized Americans and Europeans come and remove the bodies," says Mohsen Rida, 38, a neighbor. "Let Hosni Mubarak come and see this, him and George Bush," he adds, referring to the president of Egypt...