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...been more than a decade since Great White recorded a recognizable hit, which is one reason the band was playing the Station, a cramped and sweaty nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., last Thursday night. The venue often is host to bands whose popularity peaked in the 1980s, and when Great White took the stage shortly after 11 p.m., the band decided to provide the audience with a reminder of its heavy-metal past. Sets of "gerbs"--sparking pyrotechnic fountains--shot up from the stage as the band kicked into its first song, Desert Moon. Within seconds, flames crawled...
Those cheers soon turned to screams. As heat and black smoke began to billow through the club, some people tried to make their way out, heading toward the Station's front exit door. Then the lights went out, prompting a mass rush toward what many believed was the only way out. Some patrons smashed windows with barstools. Several dozen made it out unscathed; the rest of the estimated 350 patrons were still desperately clambering for escape when the stage fire engulfed the entire one-story wooden building. Scores were burned alive or suffocated under the crush of people amassed near...
...President Bush has made up his mind to go to war, the administration may be hoping to force some of the skeptics to follow Turkey's lead and make their peace with a war they oppose. Turkey's parliament is due to vote Saturday to allow the U.S. to station more than 60,000 troops on its soil, after the government extracted promises of a multibillion dollar aid-and-loan package from Washington and agreement on Turkey deploying its own forces inside northern Iraq to suppress the nationalist ambitions of the Iraqi Kurds...
...hall from her room in Hurlbut, she found West Virginian bluegrass aficionado William W. Carter ’84. The two would soon spend every Saturday morning spinning folk records on their WHRB show, “Living Traditions in Bluegrass.” Brown still visits the station when she comes to Cambridge and has been interviewed on the “Hillbilly at Harvard” show...
...Brown began readying her resumé for the business world. “But things kept conspiring to keep me away from ‘real’ jobs,” she laughs—namely, rising bluegrass star Alison Krauss asking Brown to join her band, Union Station...