Author: DXO
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POLITICS AND VIOLENCE: As Iraqi Campaign Begins, a Bomb Kills 9 in Karbala
By JOHN F. BURNS and ROBERT F. WORTH BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 – Iraq’s election campaign season opened on a violent note when a bomb exploded Wednesday near the gate of one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines in the pilgrim city of Karbala, killing 9 people and wounding 40, including a top aide to the…
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GoogObits: Emilio Cruz, Artist Known for Dreamlike Imagery, Dies at 66
The main reason I do GoogObits is so I can find out what people did with their lives. Emilio Cruz got quite a bit done. Emilio Cruz, Artist Known for Dreamlike Imagery, Dies at 66 By KEN JOHNSON Emilio Cruz a Manhattan painter, writer and performance artist, died on Friday at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He was 66.…
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MARINES IN HARM’S WAY: With 25 Citizen Warriors in an Improvised War
December 12, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq — On Tuesday morning, in dawn’s chilly half-light, a group of 25 marines mustered beside their Humvees at a base in the beleaguered town of Yusufiya for a raid. The target for Fox Company of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was the family home…
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GoogObits: Jay Van Andel Dies at 80; a Co-Founder of Amway
There are lots of ways to obtain enough to eat. Selling Amway products and the Amway lifestyle to everyone you know is one of them. December 8, 2004By LANDON THOMAS Jay Van Andel, a co-founder of Amway who spun a soap-selling business in his basement into a $6 billion global sales giant and contributed millions to conservative…
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JJ Kid Art
Family trees are graphically misleading. Just like the maps that necessarily distort the relative size of countries in order to faithfully represent their shape, a family tree that shows a clear beginning and a discreet set of branches serves to distort what a family is. Because in fact no one can be at the head…