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...that was in 1996, before the boom. A coldhearted investor could say the Connellys, for all their success, screwed up. Little Gobles is not exactly the white-hot center of the real estate inferno. If they had continued trading up for nine years--buy, fix, sell, buy, fix, sell--there's no telling how much profit they could have made. (Their Chicago house, they say, would now sell for more than $750,000.) And if they had plowed that profit into a second investment property ... and a third...
...armor-plated Mercedes Benz, with Fleihan in the passenger seat, and drove toward his West Beirut mansion in a six-vehicle convoy. As they passed the seafront Hotel St. Georges, a Beirut landmark, an explosion caused by a 1,000-kg bomb turned the site into an inferno. Hariri's charred body was identified by a ring on his finger and a swatch of fabric from the necktie he had put on that morning, which had burned into his flesh. Fleihan died two months later in a French hospital...
Somehow 31 people, including three flight attendants, initially survived the impact and subsequent inferno. "It was all sunshine until we actually started coming down," said Jay Slusher, 33, a computer programmer who was going to catch another plane for his home in Phoenix. "Then the rain started, very heavy. It became so dark you couldn't even see out the windows. The ride got rougher and rougher. It seemed like there was something on top of the plane, pushing it to the ground. The pilot tried to pull out of it. The speed of the engines increased. We started rocking...
...battle the spreading inferno, 15,924 men and women, the largest group of fire fighters ever assembled in the nation's history, have traveled from points as far away as Alaska and Massachusetts. Across the country, fire-fighting storerooms have been stripped of pumps, hoses, tools, sleeping bags and canteens...
Presiding over this inferno is the creepily complacent Cupid, played by John Kelly with mesmerizing deliberateness. Far from the cherubic toddler of Valentine’s Day, this pale, stealthy god takes malevolent pleasure in characters’ seduction and subsequent destruction...