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 | | We need to remember that during the entire period, from 1947 to 1958, no American citizens were interrogated without benefit of legal counsel, none was arrested or detained without due judicial process, and no one went to jail without trial. | | | Joe would yell back in the same spirit, and chase them as they circled him. | | | "Senator McCarthy died yesterday in Washington," wrote the English newspaper News Chronicle in May 1957. |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/first/h/herman-mccarthy.html
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| | Perry McCarthy - Biography |
| | So Sassetti agreed on Perry, offering him the drive on the condition that he wouldn't have to pay but nor would he be paid, and that he pay his own expenses. | | | Decision to retire is made, but it's only temporary | | | Indeed, he could have been in the car with Leitzinger and Wallace which eventually took 3rd outright, but it was Eric van de Poele who eventually raced. |
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http://f1rejects.com/drivers/mccarthy/biography.html
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| | Buckeye Firearms Association - Associated Press botches initial coverage of Aslanides' firearms legislation |
| | So, against this backdrop, it is no surprise the McCarthy "accidentally" got it wrong again with his coverage on the CHL cleanup portion of the legislation announced yesterday. | | | Thus far the writer is refusing any suggestion that he should issue a correction. | | | We here at Buckeye Firearms were "thrilled" to see Ohio Associated Press correspondent John McCarthy weigh in with another of his "objective" pieces on Ohio concealed carry law. |
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http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2700
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| | Eugene McCarthy, at 89; bookish senator who stunned Johnson's reelection effort - The Boston Globe |
| | McCarthy, who easily won reelection in November, delivered the nominating speech. | | | McCarthy's votes were from Democrats opposed to Johnson because he wasn't prosecuting the war enough. | | | McCarthy was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served five terms. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/12/11/eugene_mccarthy_at_89_bookish_senator_who_stunned_johnsons_reelection_effort?page=2
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| | Whiskey Bar: Stranger Than Fiction |
| | His is not just a case of agreeing with and supporting a particular ideology, party or administration, but one of active participation in specific propaganda efforts. | | | Rice should not be allowed to testify in closed session again. | | | The task force will include representatives of the FBI, the Secret Service, the Department of Defense, the Federal Communications Commission, and several local police agencies and SWAT teams. |
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http://billmon.org/archives/001273.html
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| | Film Discussion - Hostages (part 1) |
| | They just issued a very discrete and dignified statement. | | | Very interesting background info, and I am getting curious. | | | McCarthy's darkest moments were when he was alone (e.g., the cockroach scene). |
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http://www.firth.com/filmdis/hos/host-part1.html
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| | 51st Sydney Film Festival A timely and disturbing drama Blind Flight, written and directed by John Furse |
| | He later admits to Keenan and McCarthy, “We are prisoners too.” These brief moments are interspersed with outbursts of confused rage by militiamen against the hostages. | | | Blind Flight, written and directed by John Furse | | | In violation of international law and the Geneva Conventions, Washington and its allies have established a global network of state-run hellholes, where hundreds of people, including teenage children, are illegally held without charge and denied access to the outside world. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jul2004/sff2-j13.shtml
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| | Speakers Corner - John McCarthy |
| | Although his talks give a flavour of his imprisonment, they are all tailored to meet specific client requirements and are surprisingly different. | | | After the initial hesitation about meeting a stranger, the two men were to bond in a way that perhaps only twins can imagine. | | | Life was good working as a journalist in a television news agency and he’d been delighted to be given his first foreign assignment managing news crews for a month. |
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http://www.speakers-corner.co.uk/~speakersc/press.php?newsid=6
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| | The Corner on National Review Online |
| | Money laundering essentially involves transacting in the proceeds of crime (referred to under federal law as “specified unlawful activity”). | | | There are, on the other hand, excellent reasons to doubt Levitt's claim that liberal abortion laws have reduced crime. | | | And all this in relation to a matter that may well not have been a crime to begin with. |
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_09_25_corner-archive.asp
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| | The Beating of McCarthy, Elle, Sept 1992 |
| | In the case of Tumbledown, however, the justification was absolute, for Lawrence himself insisted that the scene should stay. | | | McCarthy’s public school sangfroid and undergraduate larkishness do not come naturally to Colin, who is alternately defensively jokey and gravely passionate over serious issues (over lunch later we plunge into pacifism, Thatcherism, penal reform and the tabloids). | | | Yet he has less in common with him than you might guess. |
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http://www.firth.com/articles/92elle_sept.html
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| | Journal |
| | An atlas now promised under the able direction of John Coates seems likely to rectify the deficiency in time to mark the centenary of Federation. | | | To some extent the problems with the language may be accounted for by the fact that the author is a journalist and no doubt was attempting to maintain a level of objectivity. | | | This is a sober, scholarly and superbly researched book which examines the effect of administration, technology, inter-service politics, operational tactics and doctrine on the effort to air interdict shipping in the North Sea and the Baltic. |
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http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j28/j28-book.htm
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| | Sofia News Agency |
| | Dr Zdravko Georgiev, who was the only released by court last May, frequents his wife Kristiyana Vulcheva every Thursday. | | | Libyan authorities have jeopardized the anticipated visit of Bulgarian journalists in the Judeyda prison to meet there with the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death. | | | You are permitted to use any of the articles in this message only if you kindly quote the source - Novinite.com. |
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http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=44729
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| | CNN Interactive - Almanac - April 17, 1999 |
| | In 1989, the Polish trade union Solidarity was legalized after a seven-year ban. | | | In 1985, Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigned in protest over Druze militia attacks in West Beirut. | | | In 1986, British journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. |
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http://www.cnn.com/almanac/9904/17
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| | Amazon.com: An Evil Cradling : The Five-Year Ordeal of a Hostage: Books: Brian Keenan |
| | The dichotomy in their backgrounds made for instant friendship. | | | Along the way we meet many of his collective friends, but one who is most memorable would of course be John Macarthy. | | | He was finally released into Syrian custody by his Shi'ite captors in 1991 after long stretches of solitary confinement, punctuated by brutality and deprivation: at times, he shared imprisonment with fellow hostages Frank Reed, Terry Anderson, John McCarthy, and Tom Sutherland. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140236414?v=glance
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| | John Steinbeck (1902-1968): A Brief Literary Biography |
| | "The Influence of John Steinbeck on American Social and Criminal Justice." Platte-Valley Review. | | | John Steinbeck: The Califonia Novel http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~Stephan/Steinbeck/index.html, May 6,1999. | | | John Steinbeck Bibliography Page http://www.hit.net/~mhenry/Steinbeck/Home.html, May 6, 1999. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/steinbeck_bio_s99.html
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| | BBC ON THIS DAY 8 1991: Beirut hostage John McCarthy freed |
| | In spite of a public refusal to pay ransoms, some countries like the US, France and Germany were believed to have secretly paid large sums of money or exchanged weapons for the release of their nationals. | | | The statement described Mr McCarthy as an "envoy" and said he had been given a letter to deliver in person to the UN Secretary General. | | | The militant group, Islamic Jihad, which had had been holding the journalist announced his release in a statement delivered to a news agency in the capital, Beirut. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/8/newsid_2492000/2492499.stm
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| | LT9 - The Task of Living Tradition / Pius IX, Vatican II and Religious Liberty / A Marian Year |
| | The Church does not make, as a matter of right or of divine law, the claim that she should be established as the "religion of the state". | | | John McCarthy has aptly termed "pornology", could be legally suppressed, according to Vatican II, insofar as it undermines "public morality". | | | John Courtney Murray, the comment by Murray in Abbott's edition of the Council documents must be seen as both exegetically and doctrinally equivocal. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre John McCarthy: interview on the release of his new memoir |
| | McCarthy's increasing need to come to terms with his mother's death was driven at least in part by what he calls a 'desire to have a clear head and heart' before starting his own family. | | | McCarthy is a good storyteller and he interweaves the story of his quest for his roots with a suspenseful will-he-won't-he sub-plot that hinges on whether or not he will ever be able to face opening the box. | | | McCarthy had a box of old photographs and letters from his mother which he'd rescued from the family home in Essex after his father died. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,6000,836874,00.html
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| | John McCarthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | John McCarthy (sociologist), a sociology professor at Pennsylvania State University [1] | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | John McCarthy (computer scientist), inventor of the term "artificial intelligence" and much more. |
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| | John McCarthy (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article about a journalist is a stub. | | | McCarthy, of Irish Catholic extraction, is known as Britain's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, having spent over five years in captivity until his release on August 8, 1991. | | | John Patrick McCarthy CBE (born November 26, 1956) is a British journalist who was kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and held hostage for more than five years. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(journalist)
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| | BBC News UK Former hostage McCarthy weds in private |
| | John McCarthy at RAF Lyneham after his 1991 release | | | Jill Morrell, Mr McCarthy's former girlfriend who campaigned for his release throughout the five-year ordeal, was not present. | | | But someone who had witnessed Mr McCarthy's preparations to leave had tipped off the kidnappers. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/uk/newsid_323000/323262.stm
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| | DNZB / BIOGRAPHY |
| | Winston McCarthy died on 2 January 1984 at Auckland, survived by Joan and two sons and one daughter from his first marriage. | | | He enjoyed doing party pieces: his Harry Lauder impersonation was so accurate the famous entertainer offered to include him in his act. | | | Winston McCarthy and his first wife, Jean, were divorced on 30 September 1969. |
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http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5M5&QuickSearch=true
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| | the story |
| | John McCarthy was not released until August 1991 after more than five years in captivity. | | | Brian Keenan, after his release, published his story in a book. | | | He was released in 1990 after talks between the Irish and the Iranian government. |
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http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/stud/freizeit/tcup/someone/story.html
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| | Telegraph News Former hostage McCarthy goes back to Beirut |
| | John McCarthy, the television journalist and author, is to return to Beirut this week for the first time since he was freed after being held hostage there for more than five years. | | | In an interview with the Telegraph yesterday, McCarthy spoke of his mixed feelings about flying to Lebanon this Tuesday. | | | He was eventually released in August 1991 after being held in chains in 13 locations around Beirut. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/11/njohn11.xml
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| | Whiskey Bar: The Old Bloody Shirt |
| | "John Kerry is not the president at this time. | | | That's an indisputable matter of public record." Bush added that the American public should seriously consider whether it wants to risk electing a president who has no experience heading a nation, has never resided in the White House, and does not have even one State Of The Union address under his belt. | | | I don't know whether he ever served in the military, or whether he was even old enough to have served in Vietnam. |
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| | RTE.ie Entertainment - Blind Flight |
| | Political context is never explored nor is there any mention of the families and friends who continued to actively campaign for their freedom at home. | | | Based on the story of their captivity, 'Blind Flight' was written by director John Furse together with Keenan and McCarthy, giving this harrowing, but uplifting, film an unmistakable authority. | | | Months pass and Keenan has few distractions other than catching flies, remembering events from his past and trying to block out the moans of other prisoners being beaten. |
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http://www.rte.ie/arts/2004/0219/blindflight.html
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| | Ex-hostage to return to Beirut - www.smh.com.au |
| | The British TV journalist and author John McCarthy is to return to Beirut today for the first time since he was released after being held hostage there for more than five years. | | | It was a militant, Iranian-backed Shiite group that held Mr McCarthy hostage, along with other westerners, after he was kidnapped during his first foreign assignment as a TV news producer in April 1986. | | | He was eventually released in August 1991 - 1943 days after being held in 13 different locations in and around Beirut. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/12/1073877765588.html?from=storyrhs
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Some Other Rainbow (Charnwood Library): Books |
| | This is not exactly a riveting read, but will be of interest to many who remember the long imprisonment of McCarthy and who might also remember with respect the loyal and lengthily loyal efforts made by Jill Morell to get him released from captivity. | | | For Jill Morrell, the five years of John's captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock and disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken and that her life had changed irrevocably, that all their plans had been shattered. | | | For five years she and a group of friends worked ceaselessly on behalf of John and all the British hostages in the Middle East, until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John McCarthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0708987419
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| | Keenan and McCarthy developed such a strong bond they were able to pull each other through the misery. | | | McCarthy attributes his mental health to a spiritual experience he underwent during his moment of greatest despair. | | | Both were kidnapped in 1986 and spent nearly five years locked in underground rooms. |
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http://www.odemagazine.com/news.php?nID=459
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| | Sunday Life |
| | Keenan was inundated with requests from television and film companies to tell his story, when he was released from captivity. | | | Both were held in appalling conditions between 1986 and 1991, after being kidnapped by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen. | | | The low-budget movie was shot in Belfast, Tunisia and Glasgow, and was made with backing from the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission. |
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http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=464278
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| | Edge: IN DEFENSE OF COMMON SENSE by John Horgan |
| | I have also found common sense — ordinary, nonspecialized knowledge and judgment — to be indispensable for judging scientists' pronouncements, even, or especially, in the most esoteric fields. | | | The other, even more insidious implication is that only scientists are really qualified to judge the work of other scientists. | | | As to the other respondents: John McCarthy merely confirms my assertion that computer programmers have failed to simulate common sense — except that McCarthy expends many more words to make his point than I do. |
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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/horgan05/horgan05_index.html
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| | Abused By Illusions |
| | The article also discusses Attorney General Gonzales quest to convene grand juries to bring journalist in front of to find out whom it is within government that is leaking information on the current administrations illegal use of wiretaps. | | | One such letter recently went out to the host of Doug Thompson's Capitol Hill Blue site requesting traffic data, payment information, and information about the publisher. | | | Thompson is also the owner of the service that host the website so in effect the government is asking him to turn over said information and not tell himself about it. |
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http://abusedillusions.blogspot.com
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| | Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) in Management - Goldsmith Management Centre |
| | John, who is a highly regarded, writer and broadcaster was captured by an Islamic Militant group while working as a journalist in Beirut. | | | He was held hostage for a staggering 1,934 days before being released in August 1991. | | | John added that the most important thing he had learnt from his experience was that “Whatever we are facing we can always get up and walk out, because we are free. |
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http://www.nhc.ac.uk/management/about/cove.asp
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| | Kukui Roadhouse: 4/11/86 Brian Keenan Hostage |
| | Keenan argued with his captors to let him stay with McCarthy as they took him away from his prison in a Beirut basement. | | | The attacks against Britain came hours after Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy surfaced for the first time since the U.S. bombardment of Libya. | | | (UPI) -- Brian Keenan, the Irishman released from captivity after four years in Lebanon, did not want to be freed without fellow hostage and British journalist John McCarthy. |
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| | For hostages, the heart cries for new light csmonitor.com |
| | This light can reach the captors also and free them. | | | In his television documentary film "Out of the Shadows" (OR TV, 2004), McCarthy - who claims no particular faith - is seen worshiping in a mosque. | | | Some of the people there could have been his former captors. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0708/p18s01-hfcs.htm
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| | Kent Women In Business - Business breakfast |
| | Jill and John were reunited in August 1991 but the pressure of fulfilling the public's dream of a fairytale ending proved too much and the couple found the experience had changed them both irrevocably. | | | She had to come to terms with the fact that all their plans were shattered but she never gave up hope. | | | British television journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped on 17 April 1986 on his way to catch a flight home from Beirut and spent the next five years in captivity. |
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http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/business/busnewsarchive/151005b1.html
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| | Blind Flight |
| | Each has written about his experiences and their recollections in the script by Furse and Keenan. | | | Read our TERMS OF USE and PRIVACY POLICY | | | Fed minimally, interrogated and made to wear a blindfold whenever his jailers enter his space, Keenan hears nothing except the screams of those being beaten and shot down the corridor. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000491642
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| | UMass Amherst: In the Loop |
| | Others selected for induction this year include Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eric Cornell of the University of Colorado; William Rehnquist, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; sculptor and painter Jeff Koons; actor and director Sindey Poitier; journalist Tom Brokaw; architect Maya Lin; and playwright Tony Kushner. | | | McCarthy will join several other UMass Amherst faculty in the ranks of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. | | | McCarthy earned his bachelor’s degree in linguistics and Near East languages from Harvard College in 1975 and a doctorate in linguistics and philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979. |
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http://www.umass.edu/loop/print.php?articleID=16233
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| | Terry Waite: 'thoroughly disliked' says Sutherland |
| | It was the last time he heard from Keenan and, in recent years, McCarthy has not returned his calls. | | | Calling his cell companion a "super-egotist" and "a difficult and irritating man", he also told the world he did not believe him to be an "effective negotiator". | | | By Sutherland's own admission, he is often too critical of others, a facet of his personality not always appreciated in a small cell where it was important to get along. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/10/17/nwait17.html
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| | Norfolk - Media - John McCarthy delivers strong message to Modern Apprentices |
| | The guest speaker, John McCarthy told a spellbound audience of his five years as a hostage in Beirut. | | | With the full support of their employer and with the help of City College, four of the five trainees have progressed and enrolled on the Advanced Modern apprenticeship programme ahead of time. | | | The Learning and Skills Council also has the job of ensuring that there are enough places in business to accommodate the hundreds of young people who leave school each year. |
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http://www.lsc.gov.uk/norfolk/Media/PressReleases/2004-02-28.htm
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| | John McCarthy |
| | It takes viewers inside McCarthy's internal struggle over whether his work could lead him to conflict with those who see the forest as a source of jobs. | | | John McCarthy, S.J. on Vision TV (News Release from SJ Headlines, Rome) | | | For at least 30 years people have been fighting to save the Main River Watershed from logging. |
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http://www.jesuits.ca/items/mccarthy.htm
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| | It is a character study of strangers in an involuntary relationship, who need to accommodate their national and personal differences as they struggle to survive. | | | The work was inspired by the imprisonment for more than five years of journalist John McCarthy during the Lebanese conflict in the late 1980s and is a timely mirror of the irrationality of the extremist hostage-takers of today. | | | Jake Vincent is the young doctor, Adam, who feels particularly outraged that an American should be treated like this. |
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http://www.insidebayarea.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2455269
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| | Press Release - John McCarthy speaks at Goldsmith Centre Event |
| | John McCarthy was released by the Islamic militant group on 8 August 1991, after 5 years in captivity. | | | David Williams, Head of Goldsmith Management Centre said, ‘there has been a very positive response to the event and many businesses have requested places. | | | The Centre of Vocational Excellence for Management Event, at the Letchworth Garden City based centre, will include a speech from John on his will to succeed despite the difficulties he faced during his time in captivity. |
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http://www.nhc.ac.uk/about/news/050907covejohnmccarthy.htm
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| | CS 378-W HoC: John McCarthy |
| | A Basis for a Mathematical Theory of Computation, first given in 1961, was published in 1963 in Computer Programming and Formal Systems, edited by P. Braffort and D. Hirschberg and published by North-Holland. | | | Correctness of a Compiler for Arithemetic Expressions by John McCarthy and James Painter may have been the first proof of correctness of a compiler. | | | - mother worked as a journalist, first for The Federated Press wire service, and then for a Communist newspaper. |
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http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/good/2002/cs378hoc/McCarthy.html
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| | John McCarthy: Beyond Limits |
| | On April 17, 1986, this twenty-nine-year-old British journalist on his first foreign assignment with Worldwide Television News was driving to the Beirut airport to catch a return flight to London. | | | It would be over five years before John McCarthy would again stand in the light of the sun. | | | Pushed to the breaking point by the onslaught of extreme circumstances beyond their control, these ordinary men and women find access within themselves to a spiritual strength and compassion that can be as deeply moving as that of the great saints. |
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http://www.wie.org/j26/finding-freedom.asp?ifr=dt&ifd=77
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| | Blind Fight |
| | "One wishes that director John Furse had better thought through the prison scenes. | | | He also has appeared in personal favourites, THE END OF THE AFFAIR and THE BUTCHER BOY. | | | For that reason BLIND FIGHT would have been a better vehicle for the stage. |
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http://www.chlotrudis.org/movies/reviews/2004/blindfight.html
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Former hostage returns to Lebanon to see how it fares in peace |
| | BEIRUT, Lebanon &; Former hostage John McCarthy returned to Lebanon on Tuesday for the first time since his release in 1991 to see how the country has recovered from its 15-year civil war and what lessons it could have for war-devastated Iraq. | | | As far as I can judge anything, it's very peaceful, and I think Lebanon has moved on and I am looking forward to exploring all that," said McCarthy, who plans to tour the country during his two-week stay. | | | The British television journalist said he plans to work on a documentary on Shiite Muslim communities in the Middle East and hopes to visit Iraq and Iran. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040113-1459-lebanon-formerhostage.html
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| | Garrett County Press A Terrible Thunder by Peter Hernon |
| | An editor for the Chicago Tribune, he has written five books and was co-author of a bestselling look at the Anheuser-Busch dynasty: Under the Influence. | | | Journalist Hernon's 1978 title unfurls the story of sniper Mark James Essex, a U.S. Navy veteran who declared war on white society. | | | "A Terrible Thunder is more than just another fashionable journalistic rehashing of a crime. |
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http://www.gcpress.com/thunder
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| | Women Marked for Death, by Their Own Families |
| | Zena and her husband have written a book called "Zena and Jack" at the suggestion of John McCarthy, a British journalist who was a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon, for four years. | | | They had sent him a letter praising his book on his captivity and telling him of their plight. |
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http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/212/marked/marked_death.htm
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| | Tribeca Film Festival 2004 - Blind Flight |
| | Blind Flight has the grimy, closed-in look and feel of another "men imprisoned" film, Midnight Express, but it ultimately expresses a more optimistic worldview. | | | Trapped in the most intolerable circumstances, separated by religion, culture, and politics, these two historical foes find a way to endure their pain together, proving true McCarthy's contention that, even under the worst conditions, "we can still choose joy." | | | Set in Lebanon in the 1980s, when taking Westerners hostage became a sort of national pastime for a few years, Blind Flight relates the true story of Irish teacher Brian Keenan and British journalist John McCarthy, who were incarcerated together for four-and-a-half harrowing years. |
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http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/2004/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=1005&FullNote=1
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