Month: October 2003
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PALESTINIANS: Bomber Left Her Family With a Smile and a Lie
October 7, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS JENIN, West Bank, Oct. 5 — It was a few minutes past 8 a.m. on Saturday when Hanadi Jaradat’s parents last saw her. The 27-year-old apprentice lawyer was in a hurry as she walked down the steep, narrow streets of this old Arab town, telling her parents she…
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GoogObits: Adaptation (Bill Cayton, 85, Boxing Former Manager, Is Dead)
One of the cliches about life in a hyper-capitalist society like ours is that your career may go through 3 or 4 dramatic changes before it’s all said and done. That kind of flexibility is highly prized around here. Bill Cayton didn’t have any problem with that. He started off as a chemical engineer, then…
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Ouch (One Day Longer)
“If she had lived just one day longer, she would have become the oldest,”
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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…