Cookies for Peace

Published November 26, 2007 5:00am ET



The delegates to the Annapolis peace conference this week certainly must have expected to get their share of pro-peace messages while they were here. But from the Ritz Carlton?

Yes, when the delegates from 12 countries who are staying at the Ritz’s properties downtown and in Georgetown this week went to bed Monday night, they found dove-shaped “Peace” cookies as part of their turndown service, in addition to a card emblazoned with the Walt Whitman quote, “Peace is always beautiful.”