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...responded to the disaster by collaborating across once deep religious, racial and socioeconomic divides. "When it comes to serving the needy, we don't proselytize," says the Rev. Travis Scruggs, the minister of home relief and recovery for the First Baptist Church of New Orleans, who is known around town as the "Disaster Pastor." "We love people the way Christ loved them, without turning anyone away. Actions speak louder than words...
...last year concluding that 61 people died in the U.S. in 2005 after being shocked with a Taser gun. Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said in a phone interview yesterday that no money has yet been allocated to purchase Tasers. The department first made the announcement at a town forum last week. “As of right now, there are no Tasers ordered,” Pasquarello said. “I don’t know if the money is coming in five months or in three weeks. If they come up to us in three weeks...
...Jewish philanthropist-leader who uses his wealth for the public good. During the Lebanon War, when the government was slow to shelter hundreds of thousands of Israelis who fled the Katyusha fire in the north, Gaydamak erected a tent city that housed thousands of families. Last fall, when the town Sderot was facing regular Qassam rocket fire from Gaza, Gaydamak paid to bus thousands of residents down south to stay in high-end hotels...
...Czech parliament approves plans to deploy a U.S. missile shield facility in the nearby hills, U.S. personnel are unlikely to be welcomed as the Red Army once was. The village that has yet to shake off its Brezhnev Village nickname is hardly ready to be dubbed Bush Town...
...Please help us," a middle-aged town-hall clerk in a pink blouse pleads, repeating three times, "We don't want it here," before the Zajecov mayor enters his office...