Thursday Quick Fix 6 — 3/30/06

1. APhoto Fix: American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well. Above, she appears on a video aired in Kuwait Feb. 9, asking people to do whatever her Iraqi kidnappers want to get her released here .

2. Cartoon Fix: Darryl Cagle ( Another enticing war ), Chip Bok ( Christian peacemaker teams ), and M.E. Cohen ( Guest worker program ).

3. Humor Fix: David Letterman’s “Top Ten Signs Your Kitty Is Nuts” here .

4. My Way Fix: This Day In History here , Today’s Birthdays here , Positive Quote here , and Word of the Day here .

5. Top of the News Fix: Borders, Waldenbooks won’t carry mag with Mohammed cartoon here , Global warming? Tahoe records most snow in 35 years here , Georgia congresswoman McKinney punches cop here , Tennessee prisons ban peanut butter jars here , and Texas principal flies Mexican flag at high school here .

6. Opinion Fix: Peggy Noonan /Wall Street Journal ( Patriots, Then & Now ), George Will /Washington Post ( Guard borders, face facts ), Theodore Dalrymple /London Times ( Striking idiocy of French youth ), Myrna Blyth /National Review ( Mothers are best “life coaches” ), and Robert Novak /Townhall ( Karl Rove supreme ).