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...this air, crackling with arsonist summer lightning, that is burning up huge patches of forest in the American West. It is the worst fire season in 50 years, or maybe 65. Almost 4 million acres are on fire in California, Idaho, Montana, Utah and other states, and even with so many firefighters working them, the fires will not be extinguished until the fall, when rain and snow will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Roadless Lands' Setting the Woodsmen on Fire | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...these things. Some of us don't. It probably would make a difference if we did. Tragically, none of these things would have saved Jeremiah Lucey, Lt. Thomas Spencer, Timothy Jackson, Joseph McGuirk, James Lyons and Paul Brotherton. The Worcester Fire may be have been started by an arsonist, though it's still to early to tell. The firefighters entered an old factory--a maze of stairs and doors and walls--to try to find a group of homeless people allegedly living there...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Honoring the Worcester Heroes | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Once again Feaster was the arsonist. Norfolk State senior center Selena Edward blocked Miller's shot to open the half, but Feaster grabbed the loose ball and powered her way inside for an easy...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Cagers Sweep Harvard Invite | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Grey, the people fighting this in South Dakota and Pennsylvania wouldn't know each other," says Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia, chief sponsor of the study commission bill. Topeka lawyer David Schneider was breathless after Grey's tornado-like tour through Kansas last month. "Tom is an arsonist," he says. "He lights fires, and they spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO DICE: THE BACKLASH AGAINST GAMBLING | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

...that he burned down Alabama's Randolph County High School last year. The school was gutted following the furor that erupted when the school's white principal, Hulond Humphries, unsuccessfully tried to cancel a prom because of interracial dating. The defense suggested that Humphries may have been the real arsonist--an accusation the principal strongly and tearfully denied on the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 15-21 | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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