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Every November, Wisconsin ceases to be a red state or a blue state and instead becomes a blaze orange one. That is the color donned by hunters, 650,000 of whom bought licenses to participate in the state's rifle-deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massacre in the Woods | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

While Glazer and Capp emphasize their council experience, and Moore emphasizes his lack of it, Nicolais and Mannapperuma blaze a middle ground...

Author: By Allison A. Frost and Reed B. Rayman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERESS | Title: Couple Claims Middle Ground | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...clothes, shelter, feeling of superiority—and they were infinitely more bitter at their plight than the slaves in the house. As he would put it, “if the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would…while the field Negro would pray for a breeze to pick up.” Well, on Nov. 2, 2004, the master’s house on the Democratic Party plantation went up in epic flames And while the Congressional Black Caucus...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry and Brandon M. Terry, S | Title: Runaway Slaves | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...Cost of the spark arrester that should have been installed in the off-road vehicle that officials believe started the blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 25, 2004 | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...swimming pool. He suspected that he was being frightened by Phil Spector-hired “mind gangsters.” Studio musicians donned plastic fire hats while recording a section predictably called “Fire”—and he set a small blaze in the studio to create the smell of smoke. When he learned later that there had been a fire near the studio and a small outbreak of fires in the area, he immediately stopped work on the song, believing that his music was responsible...

Author: By William B. Higgins and Chris A. Kukstis, THE DOPPELGANGERS? DUELS | Title: Dipping into the Drug Album Stash | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

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