Author: DXO
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GoogObits: Old (ELENA SLOUGH, 114 or 115)
People who live a super-long time occupy a special place in our culture. They become nearly freaks, pushing the edge of vampirism, lonely dancers of a mid-50s dance marathon.
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Suicide Attacker Kills at Least 19 in North of Israel
October 5, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS and GREG MYRE HAIFA, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 5 — A bomber charged into a crowded seaside restaurant in this northern Israeli city on Saturday afternoon and detonated explosives that killed at least 19 people, besides herself. At least three of the dead were children. The attack, which also…
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GoogObits: Friends
Sometimes I don’t feel safe in my own neighborhood. By “neighborhood”, I mean the United States of America, home of 3,000 dead agnates. Reading Alija Izetbegovic’s obituary can give you some pretty good insight into the source of my anxiety. He was a waffler, a Muslim, a good man.
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Israeli Security Barrier: Bar to Terror or to Peace?
October 4, 2003By JOHN F. BURNS HARIS, West Bank, Oct. 3 — For much of the last year, the 2,500 Palestinians who live in this ancient village in the stony hills above Tel Aviv, and about 45,000 Jewish settlers and students who live in hilltop communities nearby, have talked feverishly about the approach of the…
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GoogObits: Company (Robert Kardashian, a Lawyer for O. J. Simpson, Dies at 59)
Sometimes, in the end, all we have for people to know us is the company we keep.