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...Patrick that horrors had occurred there. When Desbois arrived in Rava-Ruska - a town of about 8,000 a few miles from the border with Poland - to learn what had happened, "it was like a black hole," he says. "There was nothing in the books." Desbois says the then mayor declined to divulge details. But when the priest returned a year later, the deputy mayor, Yaroslav Nadiak, led him to the forest of Borowe outside the town and revealed what Rava-Ruska's townsfolk had long known: that some 1,500 Jews had been shot and hastily buried...
...late to correct the misinformation carved into the Soviet plaque beside the mass grave. But elsewhere, Desbois has used his dogged persistence to commemorate the execution of Jews before all recollection of them is lost forever. In late December, Yaroslav Nadiak, Rava-Ruska's former deputy mayor, hired workers to lay a cement gravestone with a Jewish star in Borowe, a village on the edge of town, atop the mass grave containing about 1,500 Jews - the one Nadiak had first revealed to Desbois in 2003, setting the priest on his long quest for the truth. On the last Sunday...
...veteran political consultants from different political parties have joined forces and formed an independent committee to nudge New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg into running for President...
...Bloomberg's wealth, estimated at about $11.5 billion in most reports, makes the New York mayor "beholden to no one, " said Bailey." Bloomberg "owes nothing to lobbyists, nothing to special interest groups" and could fund his candidacy with his own money...
...Hillary, aren't you?" And I said "Yeah." And he said, "Congratulations. You know you've done a great job for us!" He got back in his cab and drove of. Now, the contrast was when we arrived back here in New Zealand. There was a big crowd - Mayor of Auckland and all the rest of it. I was put in this great big limousine to be driven off, and the window was down and a big hefty farmer-looking type thrust his hand in, grabbed me by the hand and shook me by the hand and said "Good...