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...group of first-year students said they suspect that a man and woman who followed them through the Yard started the blaze...
William A. Plerhoples '98 said he extinguished the blaze using skills he learned as an Eagle Scout. "I tore a branch off a tree and beat the flames out," Plerhoples said...
...easy to say what's wrong with Show Boat, the seminal 1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II that steamed onto Broadway this week in an $8.5 million blaze of spectacular stagecraft. Based on Edna Ferber's novel about a floating theater on the Mississippi River, the show has always been too long and thematically sprawling. The most engaging characters, the light- skinned black Julie and her white husband Steve, virtually disappear before the intermission, while the coincidence-plagued second act rambles episodically from 1889 to 1927. Over the years, some critics have found the treatment of blacks...
After the blaze, several prominent alumni launched a campaign to demolish the hall and replace it with a more usable building. President Nathan M. Pusey '28 publicly entertained the idea, but eventually decided against...
...federal investigation into the blaze on a Colorado mountain in July that claimed the lives of 14 firefighters concluded that they and their supervisors committed crucial mistakes and ignored standard safety procedures. Among the errors in judgment cited were failures to plot an escape route and to guard against extremely dry vegetation and volatile winds...