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...Israelis like Gabriel Peretz, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast, can do little more than brace for the next attack. "The situation is very bad," he says, his sentences punctuated by the sound of Israeli artillery fire, a crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell, as loudspeakers in the village instruct residents to take cover in hardened shelters. "We've had six years of peace," he says, "but everything has come back...
...away, in the escarpment village of Shomela, Gabriel Peretz, the owner-with his wife, Ada-of a bed and breakfast bemoaned the latest violence. "The situation is very bad," he said from his garden. Israeli artillery fire and its crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell punctuated his sentences. "We've had six years of peace, but everything has come back to us. All the fear and the bad economics." As Peretz spoke, loudspeakers in the village called for residents to get into hardened shelters immediately. He and Ada ignored them...
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...Growing up is an odd, very obscure process. To a non-rower, my musings on the psychological gap between the coach’s launch and a rowing shell will undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...
...Forgotten for decades, the Brownsville affair got a fresh airing in 1972 with the publication of The Brownsville Raid by John Weaver, which revealed how even the telltale shell casings were probably planted on the streets as part of a frame-up. On Sept. 28, 1972, the Army announced that the soldiers would finally be granted an honorable discharge. Only one was still alive by then. Dorsie Willis, a former private, had spent some 60 years shining shoes in a Minneapolis bank building. When the arthritic 88-year-old received $25,000 in back pay in 1974, he told reporters...