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Eating Rats. Many of the city's homeless spent chilly nights in the streets camping under tents that had been made from salvaged sheets and tablecloths. Even those whose homes were left standing slept on the pavement or in parks rather than remain in buildings that continued to tremble from the afterquakes. Food and water were scarce. By week's end what stores remained open had either stopped extending credit or raised prices beyond the reach of most of the city's poor...
...corpse of a man, already charred and shriveled, was lying face down on the pavement, flames still licking at his back. A few feet away, a flock of tiny songbirds chirped in small wooden cages. "We will save the birds," said a young militiaman from the Mourabitoun [garrison] of the leftist Independent Nasserite Movement. Like the corpse, much of the town was burning; flames crackled inside the solidly built houses of what was once a well-to-do community of 28,000, mostly Christians. Smoke wafted over the debris-cluttered streets and rose in a solid sheet that was visible...
Whether Harvard can get alumni to "really pound the pavement" in search of qualified women and minority students, as David L. Evans, associate director of admissions said this week, is as yet unknown...
...herself existing in a kind of end-time-an apocalypse disguised by understatement. Other tenants are quietly abandoning her apartment building, joining the migrant tribes that suddenly appear, briefly camp, and just as suddenly move on "to the East," leaving no trace but the marks of bonfires on the pavement. Machines no longer work. The electricity is off. Water sells by the bucket and good air is beyond price. Only the bureaucracy goes on, still fussing about regulations as if nothing has happened. Bureaucrats, the government and the press are contemptuously referred to as "the talkers" by the general population...
...Harvard Square, UFW backers this year fought for the grape-pickers on a scrap of pavement outside the Harvard Provisions...