Word: tente
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...Palestinian militants in Gaza, and they'll know exactly. On Monday, it was 995 days ago. On Tuesday, it will be 996 days ... The count is everywhere: on the front page of newspapers, on the TV nightly news, in school classrooms and in bright red numbers hanging from a tent that Shalit's parents have pitched outside the residence of the Prime Minister in Jerusalem...
...Monday morning, hundreds of Israelis milled around the Shalits' protest tent, hoping to meet the captive soldier's father, Noam, a shy, earnest man who swallows his revulsion at the media circus in hopes that it will prod outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into agreeing to a prisoner swap with Hamas' Islamic militants so that his son will be freed. (See how Hamas is becoming harder to ignore...
...talks were extended until Monday night, raising the expectation that Hamas might agree to free the captive soldier, who is hidden somewhere in Gaza. "It's been very tough," Noam Shalit told TIME. "But we can't give up. I have no alternative but to be here, in this tent." But as of Tuesday morning, the envoys had returned from the Cairo talks without a deal on Shalit's release. Diskin and the other negotiator, Ofer Dekel, are due to brief ministers at a special cabinet meeting Tuesday afternoon...
...eventual deal, the cabinet may then vote on whether Israel should agree to Hamas terms' for a prisoner exchange. It will be Olmert's last chance to redeem his scandal-ridden tenure as Prime Minister. And like a shadow - or a guilty conscience - Noam Shalit will leave his tent and follow Olmert to his office. There, Shalit will take up a position on a wooded hill across from the Premier's window to remind Olmert that, above politics and all else, it is the life of his son that hangs in the balance. On Tuesday, it will be 996 days...
Greg Joswiak, who oversees iPod and iPhone marketing for Apple, says the non-Jobsian approach is nothing new. "We've always done a mixture" of product releases, some without a lot of fanfare or big-tent releases, he says. "For this one, it just made sense to do it this way. We've done a lot on our website to make sure customers understand how it works...