Like the 89 year old barber who will have his shop rebuilt by the donations of total strangers (note that the riots have meant that interns at an advertising agency are actually doing something useful: wonders will never cease).

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Daniel Hernandez, a 20-year-old intern on the Giffords staff, visited wounded staffer Ron Barber, 65, at the hospital.

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In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.

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Mr Barber's 10-year-old daughter attends the same school as the children of Mr Taylor.

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"I don't have any hope that the situation will improve, but I had to take part because our clerics asked us to so we don't lose out like in in the past, " said Anwar al-Obaidi, a 60-year old Sunni barber in Baghdad.

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