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...this point his girlfriend, in tight jeans and high heels, slithers into the room, curls up on a chair and lights an extra-long cigarette. The mor-tician's skinny sidekick hovers nearby, cracking his knuckles. "This is a competitive business," he says. "You have to expect some violence...
Late last Monday, Lieut. Colonel Yossi Mor peered through the 3-in.-thick bulletproof glass on the guard tower at Rachel's Tomb. The Jewish holy site had been under fire from three sides for four hours. Bullets slammed into the glass, bludgeoning it with starfish cracks, like ice on a pond. Mor spotted a muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct...
...midnight, the Palestinian gunmen stopped shooting. Mor, dour and darkly bearded, watched them pull back from the edge of the graveyard behind the tomb. They had got to within 40 yds. of his men. Mor picked up the red phone and called Aviv again, asking permission to take a squad into Aida to go after the shooters. Aviv was willing to hit the Palestinians hard. He had ordered a grenade machine gun to fire on the Palestinian town of Beit Jala that night, after Tanzim fighters opened up on the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But this was too much. Aida...
...Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger (1845-1849), the worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...foot-tall sculpture of an emaciated woman holding her dead child as she watches her grown son leave with her other child provides a depiction of a family and country broken apart by famine. The granite base is engraved with a dedication to the victims of "An Gorta Mor," The Great Hunger...