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compatriot but rather an Israeli, Ludmilla Lekior, a victim of the Hamas suicide bomber who killed 17 in a bus attack in central Jerusalem last week. Lekior, who immigrated to Israel from Ukraine nine months ago and was studying Hebrew, was among the 60 wounded in the attack who were brought to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...
Harvard changed little through the 17th century. The study of literature was added. There was an emphasis on logic, rhetoric, Greek, Hebrew, ethics and metaphysics and little focus on mathematics and the natural sciences...
...Union, offers everything from scones to asiago cheese bread. A CULTURAL FIX: The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, 272 Pearl St. N.W. It's the only U.S. stop for the 2,000-year-old scrolls, containing the earliest-known version of the Hebrew Bible. A PLEASANT WALK: Stroll through Heritage Hill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood provides a glimpse of 19th century Grand Rapids, plus Frank Lloyd Wright's 1906 Meyer May House. Find free walking-tour guides at the Heritage Hill Association on College Avenue...
...Baghdad's street markets offer everything from guns to plugs. A bookstall on Mutanabi Street carries a Hebrew-Arabic dictionary alongside volumes of Thomas Hardy, classical Arabic poetry and medical textbooks. Also selling like bread are DVDs of a documentary called "Saddam's Crimes." The street markets are also a good place to buy gasoline - the dealer sticks a hose in his can, takes a quick suck on the other end to start the flow, and hastily plugs that end into the buyer's can. Going to the gas station could mean an all-day wait...
...reading was part of a wider effort at Harvard to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, known in Hebrew as Yom Hashoah...