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...guard who arrested her. Here she realizes that, after all, she no longer knows why she is dying. Thirty years ago, in February, 1944, Antigone appeared in Paris at the time of the German Occupation. Under the threat of air raid and without electricity, French audiences packed the Ate lier Theater night after night to see Anouilh's wife, Monelle Valentin, play Antigone in the small patch of light which crept through the stage's skylight. For in her struggle they saw reflected their own. Whereas Creon represented the Vichy government, Antigone was for them the spirit of freedom...
...without checking into exactly what all the stricken people ate, or even considering that an estimated one in every five persons from Eliot House, where the disease centered, actually bothered to report the illness, the engineer decided unobtrusively that some sort of wild-fire illness swooped down Sunday night on Eliot House, brushed the two adjacent Houses, and departed Monday after completing its gastric devastation...
Every generation in medieval Europe suffered famine. The poor ate cats, dogs and the droppings of birds; some starving mothers ate their children. In the 20th century, periods of extreme hunger drove Soviet citizens to cannibalism, and as late as 1943, floods destroyed so much of Bengal's crops that deaths from starvation reached the millions...
...investigators failed to ask most of the stricken students what it was exactly they ate. "They probably wouldn't remember that far back," Krause said, but nutritionists at the School of Public Health said yesterday that this criterion was one of the first concerns sanitary inspectors must address if there is a possibility of food poisoning...
...demonstrators walked directly beneath the windows of the room where Colby ate and shouted "Colby, killer" in the direction of the windows...