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...Kathleen, 51; and daughter Caroline, 27. The tragedy was compounded by the devastation on the ground. The disintegrating jet slammed into the tidy houses below, igniting fires and spewing debris over several blocks. Sixteen houses were badly damaged, eight destroyed. The task of counting fatalities turned into a macabre chore as authorities tried to distinguish body parts of the air travelers from those of victims on the ground. The best estimate was that 15 neighborhood people had died, raising the death toll...
...myths of the romanticized West die hard, a fact that was making a tough job even tougher last week for a 100-man posse in three states. The searchers were engaged in an all too familiar chore: hunting down Claude Dallas, 36, a self-styled "mountain man" who cold-bloodedly killed two game wardens in January 1981. After the slayings, Dallas eluded similar posses in the bleak, high desert country near the Oregon-Idaho-Nevada border for 16 months before he was wounded and caught in April 1982. On Easter Sunday, Dallas cut his way through two fences...
...threatened by a new housing development. Hill forms no permanent friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life a chore. "You'll find that most wiseguy wives do their own housework, no matter how rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since...
...searching flashlights of the workers, whose main duty was to retrieve bodies. The victims were placed on plastic sheets in neat rows in a nearby hangar. Their bodies were to be flown this week to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where forensic experts would undertake the difficult chore of establishing firm identifications...
...with MacKinnon's bill lies in a sense precisely in its explicitness, "the quick-fix appeal" of coding into law a short-term memory of more deeply rooted, that is, historical inequalities. "Should we burn it?," Suleiman warns, is a trap. Scrubbing away at unpleasant surfaces is a domestic chore. On one hand, one wants to sling mud for mud; on the other, one is then reduced to a similar level of indecency, instead of providing new examples of civil education...