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When Alabama churches started going up in flame in February 2006, nightmare visions of marauding Ku Klux Klansmen and Satanists, - the first attacking black churches, the second, white churches - sped through the popular imagination. Both groups have been active in Alabama history; and so the devout stood vigil through the night to guard their places of worship from white-robed or otherwise malevolently attired assailants. However, on Monday afternoon, when the perpetrators of the fires appeared in court for sentencing, they were dressed in orange jumpsuits and they claimed to have no racist or devilish designs on the good churchfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Church Arsons, Justice Still Waits | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

...monsters that look like they were built according to World War I specifications. The Hamreen mountains to the right are practically deserted save for a series of sentry posts silhouetted along the ridgeline. And waiting straight ahead at the gates of Kirkuk is a natural-gas flare, an eternal flame that the locals call Babagurgur-which is the symbol of this oil-rich city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Iraq Works | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

Tiny tealights flickered on the steps of Memorial Church last night, the wind choking a flame every now and then, as students remembered the soldiers and civilians who had been killed in the war in Iraq. The vigil was one in a series of campus events staged by student groups to mark the fourth anniversary of the war’s beginning. At the vigil, students read statements written by friends of slain American soldiers, followed by a short silence from the audience, which numbered more than 50. Earlier, members of the Harvard College Democrats and other students spent...

Author: By Yiming He, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Memorial Steps Host Iraq War Vigil | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Franklin sees the future in an optimistic light. Believing at first that the flame-shaped award was meant to resemble a tear, Franklin was inspired when she discovered that it was intended to be a spark...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Crying in the Bathtub’ to Physics Professorship | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends—seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Confessions of a Fruit Fly | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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