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...shocked logging industry claimed that the plan would wipe out 85,000 jobs and devastate timber-dependent towns. "The program is dead on arrival," fumed mill owner John Hampton, chairman of the Northwest Forest Resource Council. And while protesting loggers in the Northwest tossed empty caskets on a flaming pyre and sent a funeral wreath to the White House, House Speaker Tom Foley of Washington State was smoldering...
...those who has already turned it down: Russert of Meet the Press. Whoever it is may find there are days where he shares the judgment of Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum at Columbia University: "Taking that job would be like jumping onto a funeral pyre...
...Welles in blackface, upside down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...
...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...
President Daniel arap Moi ignited the 20-ft. tower of ivory, which had been erected in a clearing overlooking the Athi Plains in Nairobi's game park. The pyre was a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of elephants slaughtered in Africa by poachers over the past ten years, and a symbol of Kenya's avowed resolve to end poaching and the global ivory trade that threatens the elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked...