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...soon as my wife saw me take a deep breath, she knew it was from the army, that I was being called up for Gaza. And she started crying," says Seigelman, 30, a wiry reserve officer who has faced combat before. "She didn't want me to go. Our baby is only a month old." For Seigelman, there was never any doubt; "I knew what I was in for, but it has to be done," he says grimly...
...made Deep Throat and the man who was Deep Throat - Gerard Damiano and Mark Felt - both died last year. So did one half of the Kingston Trio (explanation to come). So, seven weeks apart, did the two stars of an Oscar-winning movie from a half-century ago. All were part of the passing parade of 2008: the entertainers whom New York cable-access guru Ed Grant refers to as "deceased artistes...
...instantly recognizable vocal talent, you went to Don LaFontaine, 68, who was The Voice - deep, whispery, authoritative - for some 5,000 Hollywood trailers. In a Geico commercial he is ID'd as as "that announcer guy from the movies" and famously intones: "In a world where both of our cars were totally underwater..." A nice guy, LaFontaine would do voice-mail messages for fans. He died of a collapsed lung...
...solution. California is one of only a handful of states to require a two-thirds-majority vote in the legislature to pass a state budget. The Democrats dominate both the senate, 24 to 15, and the assembly, 51 to 29. (There is one vacancy in the senate.) With such deep cuts on the line, Republicans and Democrats have squared off, arguing whether raising taxes or reducing welfare programs is the best way to go. In December the Democrats engineered a plan that could bypass the Republican vote and, with a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on sales...
...Israel will call off its ground assault only if the Israeli envoy now in Cairo, Amos Gilad, returns with an iron-clad promise that Egypt or an international force can effectively stop Hamas' border traffic in weapons and medium-range rockets that are capable of striking deep into Israel. "We won't end the Gaza operation without some kind of suspension of the arms smuggling," one senior Israeli official told TIME. "The next phase is inevitable." Since the Israeli offensive began, the number of rockets fired by Hamas has tapered off from nearly 100 a day to around...