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| | Amid horror and tragedy, good people do what they can (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The day after Christmas, spent in Colombo, with not a worry in the world, Caroline, friends and family -- 10 in all, including her daughter-in-law and precious grandchildren -- piled into a van and a rented car with nothing but stretches of white beach in their heads. |
 | | If some of this sounds familiar, it is because Charlie Stewart, who is spending a year writing and teaching in Hong Kong, provided an excellent, first-hand account of that day and subsequent days in a first-person piece he wrote for the Post-Gazette editorial pages Jan. 25 (see www.post-gazette.com). |
 | | Charlie, in the car behind the van, heard the news of the earthquake off the West Coast of Indonesia and the resulting tsunami. |
| www.post-gazette.com /pg/05030/450044.stm (1205 words) |
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