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Q: Without suggesting a new path toward Mideast peace  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed frustration Friday with the Israel-Palestinian impasse while insisting the Obama administration will "not lose hope."
 She said the U.S. will keep pressing for a solution  and she called on Israelis and Palestinians to set aside their differences.
 "It is no secret that the parties have a long way to go and that they have not yet made the difficult decisions that peace requires " she said in a dinner speech at the Saban Forum  a Mideast policy seminar sponsored by the Brookings Institution think tank. "And like many of you  I regret that we have not gotten farther  faster."
 She spoke just days after the administration dropped an effort to persuade Israel to impose a temporary freeze on some settlement activity. The Palestinians insist that direct peace talks cannot resume until Israel halts settlement construction.
 Clinton made clear that she believes the Israelis and Palestinians are ultimately responsible for settling their long conflict.
 "Unfortunately  as we have learned  the parties in this conflict have often not been ready to take the necessary steps " she said. "Going forward  they must take responsibility and make the difficult decisions that peace requires. This begins with a sincere effort to see the world through the other side's eyes  to try to understand their perspective and positions. Palestinians must appreciate Israel's legitimate security concerns. And Israelis must accept the legitimate territorial aspirations of the Palestinian people. Ignoring the other side's needs is in the end self-defeating."
 Clinton did not mention the administration's frequently repeated goal of achieving at least the outline of a final peace settlement by September 2011. That goal was set when Israeli and Palestinian leaders came to Washington in September to resume negotiations -- a process that quickly broke down over disagreement on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.
 She pledged to stay actively involved  but she offered no new strategy for achieving the peace deal that has eluded other U.S. administrations.
 "The United States will not be a passive participant " she said. "We will push the parties to lay out their positions on the core issues without delay  in good faith  and with real specificity. We will work to narrow the gaps  asking tough questions and expecting substantive answers. And  in the context of our private conversations with the parties  we will offer our own ideas and bridging proposals when appropriate."
 Before her remarks  Clinton met the Palestinian prime minister  the lead Palestinian negotiator  the Israeli defense minister  Israel's former foreign minister and the U.N. special envoy for the region.
 On Thursday  Clinton held lengthy talks with Israel's chief negotiator. The administration's special Mideast peace envoy will travel to the region next week.

A: Clinton expresses frustration at Mideast impasse
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Q: When  Ava Gardner  first met Frank Sinatra in 1943   the duo  couldn’t have suspected that six years later  after the actress faced two disastrous divorces before the age of 25  they would happily dive into a controversial love affair.
Sinatra may have still been married  but an insistent  Gardner  reportedly made the singer ask Nancy for a divorce. The mother of  his  three young children initially refused  but she eventually granted Sinatra a divorce in 1951. One week after  his  divorce was final  Sinatra married Gardner.
“I don’t think [Frank] wanted to hurt Nancy ” said Uzarowski. “But at the same time  I don’t think  he  went out of  his  way to hide [the affair]. They did get into quite a lot of trouble with the public. There were angry letters  hate mail coming in every week to the studio.
“She really liked  Ava  ” said Uzarowski. “She could have had a very bad attitude towards  Ava  because she basically stole her father away from her mother. She could have been resentful. But there was none of that… Tina and Nancy were both very friendly with  Ava .”
“The first time she met  Ava   when she was a little girl of 4 or 5   Ava  got down on her knees so she [could] have eye contact with her ” said Uzarowski. “And she really treated her with a lot of attention and a lot of warmth. That obviously really impressed her as a child. She still remembered that after all of these years.”
Still   Gardner  and Sinatra wouldn’t share a happily ever after. Their marriage was plagued by jealousy  fiery tempers and insecurity. They also publicly battled. The relationship was reportedly so tumultuous that  Gardner  had two abortions during their marriage  which she later publicly admitted.
According to Tina   Gardner  later wondered what the couple could have done differently.
The marriage lasted for less than two years. In 1953  MGM announced their separation. Then in 1957   Gardner  and Sinatra were divorced. However  they apparently never got over each other. There were even rumors of a possible reconciliation.
 Gardner  would move on and live a quiet life in London for more than 30 years  seeking salvation from the paparazzi.  She  never remarried.
One of Sinatra’s biggest tragedies would come in 1990 when  Gardner  died at age 67 of pneumonia.
“[Tina] said it was such a huge blow to  him  ” said Uzarowski. “ She  said  he  never got over it… It was such a huge shock to  him .  She  was the love of  his  life  by all accounts. When  she  did pass away   he  was devastated.
"Tina said the actual pain  he  experienced was so much more.  He  wouldn’t share that with anyone because it was too personal… There was a story that Nancy said in another book that  he  just locked  himself  in a room for 24 hours… and wouldn’t speak to anyone.”

A: Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra's marriage resulted in two abortions but their love endured says author
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Q: And  Shiffrin  might one day pass them both.
A month shy of her 23rd birthday   Shiffrin  already has 41 World Cup wins. But most of those have been in the tech events  meaning she and Vonn rarely crossed paths on the World Cup circuit. That changed this season  as  Shiffrin  began adding speed events to her schedule.
With  Shiffrin  hoping to do all five events in Pyeongchang  the idea of seeing  her  and Vonn  33  go head-to-head with Olympic gold on the line was one of the most tantalizing storylines of the Games. But the fireworks keep fizzling.
First was Saturday’s Super-G  which  Shiffrin  dropped after racing the giant slalom and slalom the two previous days. (And taking gold in the GS  for those keeping track.) Now it’s the downhill  which  Shiffrin  is skipping to focus on the Alpine combined that was moved from Friday to Thursday.
Then again  it feels right that  Vonn  gets the spotlight to  herself  in the race that's defined  her .
For all that  she ’s achieved  Vonn's luck at the Olympics has been stunningly bad.  She  was eighth in the downhill in Turin  two days after  she  had to be airlifted to a hospital following a scary crash in training.  She  missed Sochi after reinjuring  her  knee about six weeks before the Games.
Even in Vancouver  where  she  won gold in the downhill and bronze in the Super-G   she  was skiing with a badly bruised shin.
With one last chance to have the Olympics  she  wants   Vonn  has poured every bit of  herself  into these Games. The death of  her  beloved grandfather  Don Kildow  on Nov. 1 only hardened  her  resolve.
“This time I have a more important mission; win for my late Grandpa  ” Vonn  said in an Instagram post the night before the Super-G. “He will be watching from the best seat in the house  hopefully looking out for me and guiding me down the mountain.”
 Vonn  didn’t win the Super-G  tying for sixth after making a mistake in the last turn. But  she  was upbeat afterward  knowing  her  best race was still in front of  her .
“In general  this season  I feel like I’ve been much better in downhill than Super-G ”  Vonn  said Saturday. “And this hill  it suits me really well for downhill."
 She ’s backed that up so far.  She  had the fastest time in Sunday’s training run. Despite backing off a bit Monday   she  still finished third  .35 seconds behind Austria’s Stephanie Venier.
“I’m not looking to do anything special here in the training runs ”  Vonn  said Monday. “I just want to get a feeling for the line. I’m trying some different skis every day to seeing what’s running. But  in general  I’m really happy.”
It is only a matter of days before  Vonn ’s Olympic career is over  and  she  can see the finish line ahead. But as  she ’s done for the better part of two decades now   she  will not let up until  she ’s crossed it  pushing hard until the very end.
“You can’t get too sentimental right now because I still have to race  I still have to be focused ”  she  said. “Afterwards I’ll do some reflecting.”
And savor that one last race that belonged all to  her .

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assistant: Lindsey Vonn in spotlight as showdown with Mikaela Shiffrin delayed
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