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...many as 200 boys and girls are enrolled in Makdah's fighting camp - a tin hangar with an asphalt parade ground, where they learn the basics of hand-to-hand combat, firearms and Palestinian national ideology. "We teach what they don't learn at United Nations schools," says one local Palestinian official. On one recent day, some 50 schoolboy cadets gathered in Makdah's office after attending a demonstration against Israeli attacks on Gaza. He offered them a lesson they are unlikely to forget. "In the past, Jews used to kill us, and no one defended us," he explained. "Today...
...expansion across the river. But now, at this point in the construction, a chorus of residents finally agrees that the continuation of Harvard’s growth across the river is in residents’ best interest. We encourage both sides to see this as a new common ground for the furthering of the Allston project. If the university fails to recognize and capitalize on this newfound enthusiasm for construction, it will surrender an opportunity for goodwill and progress with our Allston neighbors. Of course, most importantly, delaying Allston construction jeopardizes the future vitality of our university in favor...
...there was one in particular who bore careful scrutiny. Guandique attacked two female joggers in Rock Creek Park in the months surrounding Levy's disappearance, on May 14 and July 1. In both cases, brandishing a knife, he attacked his victims from behind and wrestled them to the ground. (Both struggled to free themselves and were able to escape relatively unscathed.) Apprehended after the second attack, Guandique admitted during questioning that he had seen Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park...
...Gentlemen of the jury,” he declared, “a man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds below, and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be by his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were...
...that the Nazis tattooed on her forearm when she arrived at the camp. "I wanted to tell him about the nauseating, sweet smell that came from the burning corpses, how the trains came from all over Europe, from Greece, from France. Their suitcases piled up on the ground outside while the Jews were taken to the gas chambers." (See pictures of Kristallnacht...