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...torch has beckoned for nearly a century as a symbol of hope for people everywhere. But by the time it was taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois...
...Princess Fergie will never do. Still, Sarah Ferguson, 26, is the latest lass to catch the fancy of Prince Andrew, 25, and this has Britons wondering whether Randy Andy is finally over Blue Koo Stark and is now serious about fairer Sarah. Friends whisper that he still carries a torch for the soft-porn film actress. Last week, however, the royal tittle-tattle was all about Ferguson's visit, at Queen Elizabeth's invitation, to Sandringham for a week-long New Year's house party. She was first spotted with Andrew last June at Ascot, and they have been known...
Although the organizers have miles to fill before they sleep, the project has already begun to evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
...sickeningly vulnerable when the time of madness reaches its horrifying climax in East Timor. There, in the face of violence aimed specifically at him, Lloyd Parry escapes on a military flight out of the devastated capital Dili, which militias against independence for East Timor have put to the torch. "I ran away," he writes, "and afterward, I was ashamed...
...practically had to be dragged out of his seat to read a speech to supporters. But at the end of the rally he leaped onto a chair to blow kisses to the well-wishers. "Saad! Saad! Saad!" the crowd chanted, as sure a sign as any that the torch has passed, from father to son. -With reporting by Nicholas Blanford and Romesh Ratnesar/Beirut, Bruce Crumley/Paris and Elaine Shannon/Washington