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...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...
...lost his job, his freedom and even his best friend because of a movie he has never seen, Gonzalez seems surprisingly accepting of his punishment. "They had to do it to someone--and it was me. So what can you do?" he says, serving up a weary smile...
...says, "if you don't have a business plan." Under Seacrest's thoroughly modern metrosexual exterior beats the heart of a septuagenarian Hollywood dinosaur. Among his idols, he says, are Larry King and Dick Clark, and Seacrest turned to the latter for advice on how to transform a spiffy smile and an affinity for what the kids like into a TV-production empire...
Chopra said that he thought his method was summed up by a compliment he received from a Faculty Council member, who wrote in an e-mail: “Rohit, you have mastered the art of saying ‘fuck you’ with a smile...
...seconds later the smile is gone, and Bratton is back on message. "We have a domestic-terrorist problem here--gangs," he says with the urgent conviction of a televangelist. Indeed, a resurgence in gang activity was one of the main reasons Los Angeles' homicide rate rose 51% in three years, making it the murder capital of the U.S. in 2002 with 658 killings. And Bratton announced they were "job No. 1" after Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn hired him in October...