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When she attended her first Titanic Historical Society convention, in 1988, Millvina Dean, who died May 31 at 97, had never flown in a plane or stayed in a hotel. But her quiet life turned into one of celebrity, as she was soon traveling the world to speak about surviving the Titanic disaster as an infant. Fans and reporters flocked to her bungalow in Britain's New Forest for tea and homemade sloe gin. They quickly discovered she was full of humor, charm and vitality--qualities that made her an interviewer's dream...
...explicit conversation about sex with Sollecito as the investigation first got under way. "That house was a crime scene," Bremner explains, "so she couldn't go back in and didn't have any clothes. And the person who supposedly reported that this conversation had been overheard didn't even speak English, and their conversation was in English...
...went beyond our societal norms, and that is why he created a current against himself. In our country, they don't insult a man's wife [to] his face. It is also not expected of a President to tend to such small details. It is also expected that he speak based on statistics and numbers...
...Ahmadinejad's supporters remain confident, however. On Monday, tens of thousands gathered to hear the President speak at a large mosque in central Tehran. Although many were clearly recognizable by their dress as religious conservatives and members of the basij militia, there were also liberally dressed attendees throwing their support to Ahmadinejad...
...There will be no peace as long as this persists. And there will be no peace without Hamas as part of the process, as odious as its continuing embrace of violence against innocents may be. And there will be no process if the U.S. doesn't speak to all sides. In the past, the Middle East peacemakers, more often than not, have been the former terrorists - on both sides...