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...killed the remaining lights and wondered what to do next. The reports from Mark and Steve told us that the riots were getting worse, and that we were probably going to have trouble retrieving our vans from the parking lot to the tent where Awaremusic had set up shop...
When whistles began coming closer to our tent, as did the dull growl of angry people, we began to gather our few remaining personal belongings and waited by the door, foiling one man who attempted to relieve himself on our walls. It was two of our previous customers who encouraged us to leave...
Saturday morning dawned bright and clear, the tent on the lawn looked like fluffs of whipped cream, the flags snapped at full staff, the caterers and florists prepared for the 275 guests due for the 6 p.m. ceremony. But by 8:30 a.m. the family was on the phone, calling the wedding guests, telling them not to come. And as it has so many times before, the Kennedy compound became the gathering place for friends and relatives haunted by fear and grief. They held Mass on the porch, with about 50 family members and three priests praying "for the safety...
...summer lab gets the least attention, but it's the most important thing we do," says Redford over lunch in the Sundance mess tent, the music of rushing streams riding in on drifts of alpine air. Important because this level of creative nurturing doesn't exist anywhere else and because these future directors do not seem inclined--not yet, anyway--toward the variety of film that is promoted with either a Happy Meal or the billboard image of a star urinating on a wall...
...congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "The party establishment has found its candidate, the guy they think can win, and they?d prefer that the issues social conservatives like Smith champion would just go away." The Republicans have been worrying about their right flank since Reagan invited ultra-conservatives into the tent, and running hard to the center since Bob Dole fell flat in 1996. Impeachment, as America shrugged all the way on its descent into Bill Bennett?s cultural hell, may have sealed the deal. Pragmatic governors and tax-cut hawks are the party stars, and social conservatives are simply...