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...next to Lekior's in intensive care, Steve Averbach, a victim of an earlier bus bombing, on May 18, watches Seinfeld on a portable television through eyes barely open. Seven people died in that blast, which left Averbach with a spinal-cord injury and lung damage. One of the nurses who cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Killing, E.R. is an Oasis | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...Averbach, who emigrated from the U.S. at 18, has recovered enough to be able to speak to his family, though he hasn't moved his limbs. His mother Maida, who along with her husband flew in from West Long Branch, N.J., was visibly moved to see Arab nurses like Haeik working so closely with Jewish medical staff members on their son. "Why can't it be like this on the outside too?" she asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Killing, E.R. is an Oasis | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

Hospital employees are not immune to the violence. Ghalab Tawil, 42, a Palestinian from Shuafat, took a job as a janitor at Hadassah so he could be closer to his daughter Iman, 13, during leukemia treatment at the hospital. He died in the explosion that wounded Averbach. Passions ran high after one of Hadassah's doctors, Shmuel Gillis, was shot dead in the West Bank by Palestinians in February 2001. To avoid clashes with victims' families, an Arab social worker usually stationed in the E.R. no longer works there immediately after terrorist attacks. E.R. technician Assaly is also wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Killing, E.R. is an Oasis | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...freshman summary: Brownell (H) defeated Averbach, 3-0; Ward (H) defeated Baldwin, 3-0; Miller (H) defeated Houchling, 3-2; Rose (H) defeated Frothingham, 3-1; Tomes (H) defeated Dudley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '54, Brownell Win 'C' Squash Titles | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

...Holt 15-5, 15-6, 12-15, 15-9; Clark (H) defeated Boorman 15-10, 15-11, 12-15, 15-10, Ufford (H) defeated Wozencraft 15-10, 15-10, 12-15, 15-10, Watts (H) defeated Rogers 10-15, 12-15-10, 15-4, 15-11; Bacon (H) defeated Averbach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Varsity Wins | 12/6/1950 | See Source »

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