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Holocaust survivor Andrew Burian recounted his experiences in concentration camps during World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness” to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation...
NORTON SOUND, ALASKA Defending champion and cancer survivor wins Iditarod race...
...benefits of shows like “Top Model” and “American Idol” (and lots of others, from Survivor to Project Runway) offer more than just the flexing of our cognitive muscles. They teach us lessons about which kind of narratives are successful—and which aren’t. Successful narratives include the under-the-radar talent (like the girls described above), the obnoxious enfant terrible who eventually softens (Eva on “Top Model” Cycle Three, Christian on this season’s “Project Runway?...
...power was mostly back on by evening. But when the Big One shakes down California, people will be on their own--in the preindustrial sense--for three to five days: no electricity, gas, running water or phone service. Everyone will be a volunteer, which will be a euphemism for survivor. "The first person who is going to help you is your neighbor," says Karen Baker, California's new secretary of service and volunteering. "So we want your neighbor to know...
...message delivered there, however, remained a mystery, because the children refused to reveal the content of the vision they had been vouchsafed. Two of them died in childhood during an epidemic; but in 1941, Lucia, the survivor and by then a nun, released a description of the first two "secrets" from the Virgin that made headlines all over the world. One was a vivid vision of Hell; the other was a prediction that World War I would end, but "if people do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out during the Pontificate of Pius XI." Both would...