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...arrive at the police station with apprehension. This, after all, is HUPD. I find the Harvard Escort Shuttle Service in a tiny corner office. I had expected a "Pizza Ring"-like operation: visions of drivers flying out the door in fireman-like fury raced through my head. But I saw no panel of phones, no running drivers. Amazingly calm for an operation that received 26,042 calls, transported 26,030 people, and traveled 48,717 miles last year, according to John C. Miller, Escort Service Supervisor...
...City Hall" represent his sexual coming-of-age as a gay Jewish boy in New York, his rise to local fame at the epicenter of San Francisco's outlandish and highly promiscuous gay neighborhood and, finally, his death at the hands of Dan White, a former cop and fireman who hated everything Milk stood...
...blocks away and half a day later, a fireman shook his head as his unit attacked a crumbled house thought to have five people inside: a young girl, her parents, grandmother and great-grandmother. ``Until about 7 last night,'' a bystander said, ``we could hear the little girl calling okasan, okasan [mother, mother].'' But the fatigued firemen, performing a kind of triage, ignored the dwelling for easier rescues nearby. Now, as they began to dig, the crumpled house was silent. Alone in its rubble stood a large bronze statue of Kannon, a female representation of the Buddha; her name means...
...elementary school, has had enough of stoicism. ``We're partly to blame because many of us have not prepared for earthquakes,'' he says, shaking his head. ``But everyone here is surprised that we've had so little help. Many had to watch our homes burn down with not a fireman in sight. Then we have to go without food or water because the authorities are so disorganized...
...shots in Cheiry was gone. One of the victims had been given a powerful drug. Swiss police speculated that Jouret, Di Mambro or both oversaw the death ritual in Cheiry, drove to Salvan to direct the second stage and then fled. "If this is suicide," said Andre Thierrien, a fireman in Cheiry, "then someone must have given them a helping hand." In Salvan, fully packed bags were found in apartments that had been rented by victims, suggesting that some had expected to make conventional departures from town...