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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: AT HOME
A New Jersey man who once claimed insanity was convicted yesterday of a hate crime for accosting Nazi death camp survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel in a hotel elevator. Eric Hunt, 24, was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court of one felony charge of...Tags: Punishment, Sexual Assault, North Dakota, Prisons, Florida
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Hate-crime verdict in Wiesel attack
SAN FRANCISCO — A New Jersey man who once claimed insanity was convicted Monday of a hate crime for accosting Nazi death camp survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel, 79, in a hotel elevator. Eric Hunt, 24, was convicted in San Francisco Superior Court...Tags: Assault, New Jersey, Crimes
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Home-schooled kids left out of Subway contest
Sun ReporterChildren darted across the grass carrying small balloons and then plopped to the ground trying to pop them. The relay runners came back and slapped the hands of the next children, as the games progressed for the springtime ritual known as Field Day....Tags: Children, National Government, Teaching and Learning, Miley Cyrus, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Review: 'The Jewish People: A History of Survival'
verne.gay@newsday.comWhy you should watch. Producers say this is a departure from recent films, like David Grubin's "The Jewish Americans," which may have placed greater emphasis on culture or religion. The key word here is "survival," and how Jews, at every turn through...Tags: Religious Conflicts, History, Judaism, Culture, Civil Unrest
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Paperbacks
The Last Empress By Anchee Min Mariner, $13.95 Historical fiction about the woman who tried to balance the needs of her country against the traditions of her court during China's Ch'ing Dynasty. Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham...Tags: Political Candidates, Adolf Hitler, Haruki Murakami, Awards and Prizes, Tennessee Williams
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Dreams of an endless summer
By Richard Rayner
Off the southwest coast of Finland are more than 80,000 small islands left by the retreating ice 10,000 years ago. Some of the islands are mere rocks, washed by the cool waters of the Baltic, but many are covered in pine and fir trees...Tags: History, Book, Frank Lloyd Wright, Venice, Society
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Dagmar Barnouw, 72; USC professor wrote provocative books on post-WWII era
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDagmar Barnouw, a USC professor and author whose provocative works about the aftermath of World War II took aim at what she called the sanctification of Holocaust survivors, the "politics of not-forgetting Nazi evil" and the idea of collective German...Tags: History, Arbitration, Employment Opportunities, Death and Dying, Massacres
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Bush: No negotiation with 'killers'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated JERUSALEM - President Bush, addressing the Israeli parliament at a time celebrated by Israelis and mourned by Palestinians, today will remind Israelis that Americans rose first to the recognition of the new independent state of.....Tags: National Government, Religious Leaders, Suicide, Government, Society
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Transcript of full Jacqueline Murekatete interview
dave.marcus@newsday.comAs a child in Rwanda, Jacqueline Murekatete was taken to an orphanage after her parents and six siblings were killed in a genocide. At age 9, she was brought to Queens by an uncle who adopted her. She studied at Stony Brook University, then transferred to...Tags: Human Rights, New York University, Genocide, Imperial and Royal Matters, Schools
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Young heirs carry Holocaust's torch
lidesk@newsday.comOn the international March of the Living's annual trip to Poland in 1998, Holocaust survivor Irving Roth saw his name among a list of camp inmates inscribed on a wall in one of the museum buildings there. Most of those listed had been killed by the...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Family, University of Miami, Society, Long Island
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