But Ethan Zuckerman, a blogger and activist, used independent data to estimate that these links represent roughly 1-2% of the combined total of friendships on Israeli and Palestinian accounts.

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Beers, who now lives in Pennsylvania, said it was likely that not only Ethan, but his family, would need counseling.

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Smith said Monday that Ethan has siblings, but none of them were on the bus last week.

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But, notes Lehman Brothers economist Ethan Harris, Friedman proved the theory untrue.

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Police said Dykes was "contentious" the entire time, but he allowed them to deliver comfort items for Ethan including coloring books and toys.

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Relief that Ethan was safe was palpable in Midland City, but many questions remain about what comes next for him.

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But Ms. Delpy and her collaborators, actor-writer Ethan Hawke and writer-director Richard Linklater, would go on to create "Before Sunset" (2004) and "Before Midnight, " which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles after an enthusiastic reception on the festival circuit.

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But the internet can bring both great promise and great peril for microfinance, according to Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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You believe in his belief, for Ethan, usually the mildest of fellows, is addressing not Corinne, whom he loves, but the demon who has tempted him into violence.

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