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Trapped between two walls of flame, the 52 fire fighters did what their training had taught them to do to get out alive. Some pulled out their survival shelters, thin metallic covers they could throw over themselves as they fell facedown to the ground. Some looked for bare, blackened ground the fire had already consumed and moved past, creating a safety zone by default. But there were few such areas, so many of the trapped fighters raced the fire up the mountain, hoping to get over and find shelter behind a ridge above them. It was an excruciating...
Fuel for the flame was the decision by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) to continue to bar men from voting. Not that men ever cared before. In fact, they tend to shun the mysterious "R" like the plague, with the exception of that guy who attended the Women's Leadership Conference so he would look sensitive for the Rhodes Scholarship committee (it worked). But once they learned that some club somewhere was barring them from entry--that they were being honest-to-god oppressed--a bunch of men suddenly got incredibly indignant...
...simple ceremony, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to her murdered first husband, President John F. Kennedy, and next to the eternal flame she lit for him three decades ago. "She was a blessing to us and to the nation -- and a lesson to the world on how to do things right," eulogized Senator Edward Kennedy...
...clothes, but she insisted on wearing the stained pink suit. "I want them to see what they have done," she said. She also refused to take tranquilizers, fearing they would blunt her reactions and interfere with her planning -- because plan the funeral she did. The riderless horse, the eternal flame, the wailing Irish bagpipe -- all were her idea. When the hearse rumbled past, she asked little John to salute his father. The nation saw her then as a mother, first and foremost...
...Deane burned with a special flame," Bok said. "No one was more loyal or more devoted to the Harvard community. No one was a more faithful friend or quicker than she to reach out to someone in need. Sissela and I will miss her very much...