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...second best part of Taken is a phone message the movie's hero, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), leaves for the man who has just kidnapped his 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace). "I don't know who you are," Bryan says, his voice icy with a strong man's resolve. "I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare...
...time of the merger negotiations, Hunt saw his son and daughter playing with a new ball from Wham-O that was almost impossibly bouncy. It wasn't such a leap from Super Ball to Super Bowl. Hunt brought it up at an owners' meeting, and -over Rozelle's strong objections-the name stuck." (See the top 10 sports moments...
...several complex reasons. First, many Cuban refugees in the United States directly oppose any open gestures of amity toward their former oppressors. Second, many United States companies who possessed property in Cuba before the government seized and nationalized it during the early ’60s still stand strong in lobbying against an end to the embargo. While both of these admittedly powerful constituencies have legitimate grievances against the brutal Communist regime, the Cuban government has not and will not become more accommodating to their interests on a mere whim. Dropping the embargo would allow us to facilitate the change...
...Moreover, there is a strong geopolitical argument for dropping the embargo: the re-emergence of the Russian Federation as a global power. Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has made restoring a close strategic relationship with Cuba a priority in Moscow. This alone should be more than enough evidence that the embargo is counterproductive. In 1962, the world watched with bated breath as Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in the Caribbean, and many historians today recognize that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the world had ever come to nuclear holocaust...
Relations had long been chilly between the one-billion strong Roman Catholic Church and the largest Orthodox Church (which claims 110 million adherents though perhaps less than 5% are regular churchgoers). There was little hope for major reconciliation during the 26-year reign of Pope John Paul II, a Polish native who was seen by Russian religious leaders as a threat for poaching faithful in its sphere of influence...