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...Fifty-three-year-old Gabrielle Short, a forgotten Australian, described her ordeal at the Nazareth House, an orphanage in the southeastern town of Ballarat, to the Australia Associated Press (AAP). "If you wet the bed at the house, they'd rub your face into the sheets until it bled," Short said. "I try to explain it to my children now. If you were to read the story Oliver Twist, you take away the music and the happy bits, and that's what it was like." Two sisters, who were also in the care of the Nazareth House, but in Brisbane...
...significance: James was indeed the name of a New Testament personage known as the brother of Jesus, both ostensibly the sons of Joseph the carpenter, husband of Mary. If its dates were genuine, the burial box - or ossuary - could well be circumstantial evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, a tenet supported only by gospels and scripture written, at the earliest, a generation after his crucifixion and, of course, by the faith of hundreds of millions through 2,000 years...
...Sunday the White House unveiled three assistant secretaries for the Senate's consideration, and a new slate that includes replacements for Annette Nazareth and Caroline Atkinson, who withdrew their names for deputy secretary and undersecretary for international affairs, respectively, is apparently on its way. Meanwhile, Treasury officials correctly point out that Geithner is filling out top slots faster than previous Democratic and Republican Administrations...
...peace with the Palestinians, and those who think it is impossible to even try, and who advocate living in a constant state of military readiness against the Arab enemy. "Lieberman is a Jewish problem. Not a problem for the Arabs," says Mohammad Darawsha, a researcher and political analyst in Nazareth. Still, a sizable showing at the polls on Tuesday could enable Lieberman to put the brakes on any Arab-Israeli peace process...
...Using photos donated by Yad Vashem and images from the Naqba - the "Catastrophe," which is how Palestinians refer to the events surrounding Israel's independence, which left thousands of Palestinians in exile and in refugee camps - the lawyer set up a one-room museum in his hometown of Nazareth, called the Arab Institute for Holocaust Research and Education. Every week, he travels to towns, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank trying to enlighten his fellow Palestinians. Says Mahameed, "Even with the militants, when I explain to them that Israel's brutal policies in the Palestinian territories stem from...