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...first commercial radio stations went on the air, Harvey fashioned a personality and career that spanned the medium's Golden Age, its postwar retreat into a pop jukebox and its later resurgence as the place for news and talk - exactly what Harvey did for more than 75 years. He spoke with clarion clarity, his voice an elocution teacher's pride, easily parodied but intimate, powerful and oh-so-precise. It was "nee-ews," never the lazy "nooze," and "reck-ord," not "reckerd." For emphasis, he'd add a vowel to a word with abutting consonants ("web-a-site"). Many...
...speakers, Nisreen Abdallah, a youth director at OneVoice Palestine, and Roi Assaf, a youth director at OneVoice Israel, spoke about their personal experiences living in Palestine and Israel during the conflict...
...Abdallah spoke about the trauma of growing up in the midst of the violence, calling it a key influence in her life...
Assaf also spoke about his experiences while he was serving mandatory military duty. At one point, he described his feelings after an incident during which one of his soldiers almost killed a Palestinian over a misunderstanding...
...last case is the trial of Taylor, who initially fled to Nigeria under his amnesty agreement but is now being held in the Hague. Taylor's trial was moved there for security reasons. After Wednesday's judgment, the prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief Alex Perry by phone from the court's offices in Freetown...