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                                            Death in Annapolis By Hank Silverberg         This past week was not a good one for America.   Five people who worked for the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland were gunned down by a disgruntled reader who thought they had done something to harm him. Editor Gerald Fischman, Assistant Managing Editor Rob Hiaasen, sports reporter John McNamara, reporter Wendi Winters and sales assistant Rebecca Smith, were just doing their jobs, the same kind of job that hundreds of journalists in towns big and small do every day. People who work at small newspapers like the Gazette don’t make a lot of money. They rarely get national recognition. They don’t cover foreign summits, White House briefings or international intrigue.                                                            Most of the stories they write are about their community. What is the school board up to with your child’s education?   How is the city council going to

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