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INSKEEP: This reach out, as he calls it, seems to have worked, given that you were there, Leila, at the same time as the Conservative Political Action Conference - or CPAC - which is an annual ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Catholic Church followed each step of a ritual that's centuries old. White smoke poured from a chimney yesterday. Then a cleric appeared on a balcony to say these words in Latin ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: The Catholic Church followed each step of a ritual that's centuries old. White smoke poured from a chimney yesterday. Then a cleric appeared on a balcony to say these words in Latin ...

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Fadel: We've been talking for almost 15 months now, and the last message you sent me was in May saying, "We just want a ceasefire." Do you think now is finally the time? Ahmed: I really hope so.