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...main building to interview witnesses, we observed a chilling landscape. Ambulances and emergency vehicles lined most of Avenida Washington Luís. Directly below us on the street, rescue workers had spread a huge tarp yellow tarp and covered it with empty body bags and back boards, anticipating the toll to come...
...current estimated death toll, including people in the street and those trapped in the warehouse, is over 200 people. The warehouse, unfortunately, was a 24-hour post, and thus many TAM workers were inside at the time of the crash. Some eyewitnesses said some workers escaped by jumping out of the second story and running from the building. But many died inside. By the time the fire waned it had already gutted the entire building...
Such heartfelt individual meditations have taken a collective toll on the cemetery. Vandals long ago dismantled the outsize bust of Morrison that once topped the grave. By then, the grave site had been covered in graffiti by fans. Other tombstones, vandalized with arrows labeled Jim that directed the way to Morrison's grave, have since been wiped clean. Cemetery staff blocked off the plot with metal barricades a few years ago. Asked for directions, a staff member sniffs: "We are a cemetery, not a tourist service...
...Obama didn't invent this analogy. In June, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley made a similar point, comparing the annual toll of nationwide gun deaths to Iraq casualty figures, and wondering what happened to the outrage. Right-wing bloggers have used the same data to make a different point: that the media is hyping the number of casualties in Iraq, since the total is still small compared to, say, the number of annual homicide victims...
...FATE OF THE IRAQIS A reduction in the U.S. combat presence would probably produce one clear benefit: a lower U.S. casualty rate. But a chilling truth is that as the U.S. death toll declined, the Iraqi one would almost surely soar. Just how many Iraqis would die if the U.S. withdrew is anyone's guess, but almost everyone who has studied it believes the current rate of more than a thousand a month would spike dramatically. It might not resemble Rwanda, where more than half a million people were slaughtered in six months in 1994. But Iraq could bleed like...