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Education consisted of home schooling and hours-long twice-daily biblical lessons taught by a rambling Koresh. Sometimes he jumped from the chapel stage to paddle young ones who were crying or being disruptive. "You never knew what he was going to be," says Kiri Jewell, 12, who was taken from the compound by her natural father in 1991. "One minute he was nice, and the next he was suddenly nasty." The children also learned songs filled with violent apocalyptic imagery. War and martial-arts films proliferated in the cult's video library. Koresh preached that the world was full...
...m.p.h. prairie winds had sent the flames gulping through the compound. The fire raced through the big parlor, feeding on the wooden benches and the stacks of Bibles kept by the door. The chapel crackled as flames consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from the messiah's rock-'n'-roll band and the wooden pew-like bleachers for his audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned...
...that Koresh had backed away from the brink before. On March 2, when he was supposed to surrender, he arranged to strap grenades to his body, come out and blow himself up in front of TV cameras. All the preparations were made, he kissed the children goodbye in the chapel -- and then, at the last moment, "chickened out," Ricks said...
Manhoff, a Braintree resident, fled after Church officials praying in Appleton Chapel interrupted morning services to investigate the noise in the church, said eyewitness Howard B. Fauntroy, a Memorial Church seminarian...
...come was a concert on a bitter May after noon at Kresge Plaza at MIT in 1970. Some of the best live performances in my collection of bootlegged tapes are from Princeton and Cornell. And last month alone they played several shows at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I for one, refuse to believe that Harvard--which tops the U.S. News and World Report list, after all--is destined to be forever outdone by these schools. We must even the score with the MIT and the other lvies that have hosted the band. We must have...