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...Friday night, the eve of the Jewish sabbath. Jaroslav Haidler prays, eats a simple meal and then goes back to work at the Old Jewish Cemetery in Osoblaha, a tiny town in the northeastern corner of the Czech Republic. Armed with a flashlight, he crouches in front of one of the 300 or so tombstones, transcribes its inscription and makes notes on the shape and condition of the stone. Haidler, 43, a part-Jewish theater-troupe director from Ústí nad Labem, a post-industrial city in the north of the country, has been documenting tombstones around the country...
Though the city is bracing itself for the raw emotions that will no doubt be generated by the anniversary, the mood in New York on the eve of the anniversary seemed to be one of business as usual...
...quite a plan for your life or he wouldn't have saved it, as a pastor told Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last survivor pulled from the hellfire. We all may want to be closer to our families, but consider Sergeant Randel Perez, who met his firstborn son on Christmas Eve by borrowing a commando's laptop and grabbing the satellite link from Afghanistan to visit the hospital website. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he told the image on the screen softly, over and over. It's one thing to calculate what we've lost; but then there...
...promised to post a picture of baby Ramiro, named after his grandfather, on its website. Luckily, Perez had been deployed along with the 5th Special Forces Group from Fort Campbell, Ky., a high-tech outfit with a laptop linked to the Internet by satellite--a laptop reserved last Christmas Eve solely for the use of one Randel Perez. He hunted and pecked until the screen filled with a digital image of Ramiro. Perez stared at the picture for two hours. "I'm sorry I couldn't be there," he said softly, over and over. "But I'll be home soon...
...CHARGED. EVE HIBBITS, 31, for allegedly allowing her 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old twin sons to become severely sunburned at a county fair; with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment; in Brilliant, Ohio. Hibbits spent eight days in jail and was initially charged with three felony counts before doctors downgraded the children's diagnosis to first-degree burns...