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...fire in the Eliot House Grille Sunday night left residents standing outside in the cold and caused smoke damage in the House tunnels and some student rooms...
...three hours were spent coping with the smoke and the investigation, and it took us a while to get the place back into order and check each room and entryway,” Pertile said...
...helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north tower of the World Trade Center. His station was on the 78th floor, and his instinct to help kicked in when he exited the subway in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 and saw the gray ribbons of smoke streaming from the building. "I have to go in," he said to a friend. "I know people in there. Maybe I can help." Instead he soon found himself running from hell, trying to escape the crumbling tower, his beloved workplace...
Since Preidis and his friend did not see any smoke, he said they went back to their rooms, only to hear the fire alarm about 30 minutes later...
...While jubilant residents greeted the liberators by sacrificing sheep in the streets, the American response to the Alliance's triumph was muted. Privately, U.S. officials fretted that the three main factions storming the city could end up battling one another before the smoke could clear. Dostum, the charismatic warlord who governed Mazar until a Taliban offensive unseated him in 1997, is notorious for his inconstancy and ruthlessness, and he has no intention of ceding authority to the 37-year-old Atta, a rising military star. Atta has curried support like a small-town mayoral candidate, printing up posters of himself...