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...tough policies. But Israel's confidence in Egypt is shakier. Two weeks ago, President Hosni Mubarak said that in the event of an Israeli attack on Syria, Egypt would not "stand idly by." Given popular feeling in Egypt against the Netanyahu government, it was perhaps an inevitable, if insincere, remark. If Egypt did not go to war when Israel attacked Lebanon in 1982, notes a senior Arab diplomat, it is unlikely to volunteer help with a Syrian attack on Israel today. Even so, the Mubarak comment has Israeli commanders re-examining their options on the western front...
When Bill Clinton raised the possibility of such a role during a television interview in September, his aides blanched. A policymaking First Lady was not part of the campaign strategy, and Hillary immediately said her husband's remark was "quite a surprising comment." But that was then, and now they've won--so Hillary is once more willing to speak her mind, revealing a proud woman who is bitter about the low blows she believes she has received but has a plan to fight her way back into the arena...
...seems to have a lot of time on her hands," Molly said. That remark indicated to me that Molly had come away from the experience unscathed. A little later in the meal, though, it was revealed that the same could not be said for her experience with the television advertising campaign against drug...
...face up to what I might have wrought. It was possible that some completely innocent sales rep, flying from New York to Chicago as part of an unsung but fundamentally noble effort to support his deserving family, was suffering agonizing hunger pangs because I had made an offhand remark in an uncharacteristic moment of revulsion...
...specifically remember saying that I'd prefer no food at all to airline grub. I'd also like to say that these days a huge American corporation such as an airline would be expected to base its decisions on extensive customer surveys rather than an offhand remark by one disgruntled passenger--particularly a disgruntled passenger who has a history of complaining about the food served on airplanes...