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...wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody of their two children, he hit the road in his truck. "I couldn't handle seeing her with another guy," he says. "I was afraid of my own temperament." As his black puppy, Harley, chews on a Gideon Bible, Moreland, now 40, lies back on the bed. "I'm starting to have tears in my eyes, just thinking back," he says. In recent months he has lived in Mesa, Tucson and Las Vegas, working as a day laborer...
...Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington, Gideon Gil/Jeffersonville, Jenifer Mattos/New York, Elizabeth B. Mullen/San Francisco, Sophfronia Scott Gregory/Miami, and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...Gideon Mendel, Network Agency: "Photographers are aware that violence is a valuable commodity. When I heard that some photographers had been at ((the execution; Mendel shot the aftermath)), I said, 'F---, I missed the event.' That's a rather peculiar thing for a human being to say. 'Damn, I wasn't at the scene of a killing.' I am disturbed at seeing hoards of photographers chasing after violence, although I am a part...
...Prague- born composer and associate of George Grosz and Paul Klee, who died at age 48 in 1942 in the Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...
...especially ironic that the appeal was brought to the Supreme Court not by the Gideon Bible company, but by the school district. No one was forcing the children to accept either the Bibles or the ideas contained in them; the school officials simply believed in the value of making religious ideas available to children...