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...booze, sex and flat-screen televisions. The forgotten hostages spent the next five years in captivity. But with the help of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, the Colombian Army improved to the point that, on July 2, 2008, commandos were able to launch a daring, Mission: Impossible-style sting operation in a bid to save the hostages. That operation is detailed in a new book by veteran Latin America journalist John Otis, Law of the Jungle: The Hunt for Colombian Guerrillas, American Hostages and Buried Treasure. An excerpt follows...
...were taken hostage by fierce Marxist guerrillas the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, better known by the Spanish acronym FARC. It would take five years, and the help of billions of dollars in U.S. aid, before commandos of the Colombian Army were able to launch a daring, Mission: Impossible-style sting operation in a bid to save the hostages. Colombian planners of the July 2008 operation were probably keen to avoid the fate of the earliest rescue attempt. The misadventures of that fiasco, along with the final rescue attempt, are detailed in a new book by veteran Latin America journalist John...
...also saw my old classmates, who once mocked sports media fawning over Favre, cheering the fact that they now had the three-time-MVP's arm on their side. With the last-second interception of Favre's final pass, many of them felt for the first time the confounding sting that Packers fans had grown accustomed to since Favre won his only Super Bowl back in 1997. I was covering the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 when the Packers made it to the NFC Championship game against the New York Giants. I skipped out on my film screenings...
...took the podium, saying Brubeck was the reason he got into jazz. Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, a friend of Grace Bumbry, passionately belted out an aria from Carmen. And Jon Stewart - who shares New Jersey home-state ties with Springsteen - drew laughter with his dry humor before performances by Sting, Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Melissa Etheridge, among others. See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...change in policy also reflects the political and economic reality in Asia. While the U.S. and European Union have stayed away, other countries have poured money into Burma - most notably its neighbors China, Thailand and India, who are hungry for the country's plentiful natural resources. The sting of western sanctions has been lessened by such investment forays, leaving the Burmese military brass with plenty of money to prop up their regime. (See pictures of what lies behind the discontent in Burma...