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...place in remote, desolate country villages that today seem frozen in a bygone age; they still have little electricity and no indoor plumbing. On New Year's Day, TIME traveled with Desbois to the tiny village of Vysotsk in northern Ukraine, a few miles from the Belarus border. We drove for nearly eight hours from Rava-Ruska through the countryside in temperatures approaching -4 degrees F (-20 degrees C). In the back of his rented van, Desbois pored over translations of documents from 1944 when Soviet officials went to Vysotsk to question villagers. Their report, now housed...
...Borowe, a village on the edge of town, atop the mass grave containing about 1,500 Jews - the one Nadiak had first revealed to Desbois in 2003, setting the priest on his long quest for the truth. On the last Sunday in December, a group of Ukrainian Jews drove to Rava-Ruska from Lviv, an hour away, and gathered in the snow around the grave, where they recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. For Desbois, this quiet ceremony in the woods was a high point after his years of wrenching work. "I want to see these people properly...
...took a 47-26 lead into the half, but this time it entered the half down, 36-26. Despite several brief spurts in the second half, the deficit would never fall below six. With the team down, 59-49, and just under six minutes left, junior forward Evan Harris drove for a lay-up and a foul, making the free throw to cut the Big Green lead to seven. Harris then forced Dartmouth forward Alex Barnett to turn the ball over on the next possession, and Harvard seemed ready to go on a run.Instead, Big Green guard Robby Pride stole...
...London taxi stopped and the taxi driver - he was a tough-looking cookie - came out and said "You're Hillary, aren't you?" And I said "Yeah." And he said, "Congratulations. You know you've done a great job for us!" He got back in his cab and drove of. Now, the contrast was when we arrived back here in New Zealand. There was a big crowd - Mayor of Auckland and all the rest of it. I was put in this great big limousine to be driven off, and the window was down and a big hefty farmer-looking type...
...Middle East wing, Israel is considered comparatively safe. The Israeli police, well-experienced in dealing with suicide bombers, are unmatched in the world when it comes to security. More than 4,000 Israeli police and soldiers stopped traffic and cordoned off chunks of Jerusalem whenever the U.S. President drove through...