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Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune, because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later. Mark Haddon

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Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mark McKinnon

History Change Events Nation Suicide President Presidential Presidential Campaign Crisis Somalia Attack Attacks Hostage Outside Course Terrorist Iranian Campaign The History Of Helicopter Sept Beirut Downing Bombing Marine

Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. Nancy Gibbs

Journalist First Important Revolution Few Every Tehran Crisis Trip More Wright Hostage Over Since Know She Well Robin Islamic Contest Covered West Iran Milestone Staring Her Nuclear Recent Program

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends. Peter Maurer

Political Action Hostage Ends Cannot Held Humanitarian

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. Peter T. King

Job Think Trees Type Saw Rule Bosnia Deliberate Fact Hostage Had Taken Tied Authoritative Get Done Being Again Needed

I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted. Ronen Bergman

Time Home Degree Soldiers Ways Alive Cases More Could Hostage No-One Powerful Over Come Dead Operate Israel Israeli Issue Discourse Covered Years Covert Dominate Than Espionage Predicted Which Public Public Discourse Agencies Including Bring

When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest. Sanjaya Baru

Government National Unable Would Would-Be Federal Federal Government Hostage Policy Becomes National Interest National Policy Interest Regional Interests Act Larger

I still remember, as a kid, tying a yellow ribbon around a tree in front of my house during the 444 days that Iran held 52 Americans hostage. Iran is not a place we should be doing business with. Scott Walker

Business Remember Tree Tying Kid Hostage Days House Around Still Doing Iran Yellow American Front Place Ribbon Held Should

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage. Shimon Peres

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