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...survivor. In any event, the '60s have proved to be just as difficult to eliminate as Rasputin was. Or, to be bipartisan, as hard to dispose of as Richard Nixon, who went down into the frozen river a hundred times during his career and always bobbed back. Nixon and the '60s, though they hated each other, were each driven by a fierce relentlessness. Nixon finally died...
...Grant's phone anymore. Last week radio's Brahmin of bullies, 66, was disconnected from his audience on New York City's WABC. The apparent provocation: his speculation, on hearing of the crash of a plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, that Brown would be the one survivor--"because, at heart, I'm a pessimist...
...privately and publicly, with what it means to be a victim and what it means to survive. Whose names belong on the yet-to-be-designed memorial? "Clearly you can identify the 168 people who died," says Kim Jones-Shelton, chairwoman of the mayor's committee for families and survivors. "But how much injury makes you a survivor? I would venture to say that everyone in Oklahoma City heard the explosion that day and the whole city is still suffering from the devastation...
...Angeles. No one missed the irony of Ngor's death: he had survived four years in the slaughterhouse of Khmer Rouge Cambodia during the '70s, only to be struck down in the violence of an American city. In between he won an Oscar for his portrayal of fellow survivor and photojournalist Dith Pran in the 1984 movie The Killing Fields. Police are looking into whether Ngor, an outspoken benefactor of L.A.'s Cambodian-refugee community, was a victim of robbery or politics...
...only survivor of the incident, a teenage maid who was shot four times, later testified against the gang members but then went into hiding, Dorsainvil says...