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Blogging hasn't worked, so here are a few proven methods:
1. Invent something useful that creates or fills a need.
2. Write a book that everyone wants to read
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BERLIN -- The German government paid more than $10 million in ransom to win the freedom of two men held hostage in Iraq for 99 days, public television station ARD reported yesterday, quoting security sources.Option three should be attractive to those who lack literary skills, inventive minds, or time.German weekly magazine Der Spiegel also reported a ransom had been paid for the two engineers brought home last week, putting it at several million dollars more than the sum paid for Susanne Osthoff, a German woman held in Iraq last year.
Reports at the time quoted unidentified diplomats as saying the government paid a ransom of $5 million to Miss Osthoff's captors.
Berlin has refused to comment on whether it did so for Miss Osthoff or the two kidnapped men from Leipzig, Rene Braeunlich and Thomas Nitzschke, whose release was announced Tuesday.