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...most successful new projects involves lying small plaques in the ground in front of the former homes of Jewish Holocaust victims, each inscribed with a small biography and the circumstance of the victim's arrest and deportation. The plaques are called stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks," and you see them all over Berlin. Some 17,000 have been placed across Europe. So while many of the survivors of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust that followed may not be alive for much longer, their suffering is not likely to be forgotten...
Tootle said that, so far, there is “nothing on the ground.” He predicted the first census would be finished in two years and that the plot is “very remote...
...Young men will do’t if they come to’t. By Cock, they are to blame!”—there was no time. It would have to be now. Her thoughts dissolved as she rose from the ground. She heard song wafting through the trees and did not know whether to attribute the music to passing monks or her own fevered head. She would turn back–No! It would be now ... but how could she even–when all at once Frederick threw himself from the branch...
...willing to revisit his 16-month withdrawal schedule. He acknowledged over the summer that it may be necessary to "slow the pace because of the safety of American troops," he said. "I would be a poor commander-in-chief if I didn't take facts on the ground into account." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...
...Obama received his first on-the-ground briefing in Iraq on the morning of July 21 at a military base adjacent to the Basra airport. During the briefing, said a senior U.S. military official, then-Senator Obama seemed "receptive" and "asked good questions." The hope among senior officers in Iraq is that President-elect Obama will make good on another promise he's made over an over again from the stump: "We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting...