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...Oakland fire killed 25 people. Through skill and luck, this outbreak was different. Police in Laguna Beach avoided traffic jams through a "cascading" system of evacuation in stages, and made sure to route people down the safest roads, rather than the shortest ones. The communities threatened this time were smaller than Oakland, the logistics easier. Thus by the end of the week, although the fires had made 25,000 Californians homeless and injured 84, they seemed not to have claimed a single life. "By God," sighs Laguna Beach Police Captain Bill Cavenaugh, "we didn't lose anybody...
Replacing the third-leading scorer in Harvard men's basketball history sounds like a tall task, but the shortest man on this year's team is up to the job: After just a few days of practice, new team captain Tarik Campbell is drawing rave reviews...
That's what's good about Ruben. He doesn't mess around with nuance. He sticks to the psychological basics and the most primitive scare tactics. Nothing distracts him from arriving, via the shortest possible distance, at some not exactly subtle but inescapably gripping point. It ain't art. Nobody's ever going to call him the new Hitchcock. But there's something admirable in his disdain for high, fancy stepping, his heedlessly efficient drive to put us in touch with the primal ooze of our worst imaginings...
What Vince Foster seemed to be discovering was the old and tarnished coin of the realm. In a memorable description of Washington, William Manchester (The Death of a President) wrote 30 years ago, describing Lyndon Johnson, that he thought the shortest distance between two points was through a tunnel. Foster found the tunnel, but he did not like the shadowy creatures he found down there...
...remain unchanged, the methods of rebellion are now far more dangerous. Today's miscreants know that a pistol says much more than long hair or a pierced nose ever could. Not just louder, but forever. With a $25 investment, all the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest and weakest kid becomes a player...