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...been a bad year for Montoursville. One teen dropped out of school and later committed suicide. There were two fatal traffic accidents, one killing a well-known high school student and the other a grade school child. When a vigil for the dead French club members took place on Thursday night in the school gym, 2,100 weary souls, a little less than half the town, showed up and wept in the bleachers. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge attended. A group of cheerleaders, in uniform, placed photographs of the town's 21 dead on a makeshift altar. The first speaker...
...also wants "to die on the World Wide Web" and to leave behind a Website tour of his home. "The key to dying well is for you to decide where, when, how and whom to invite to the last party," says Leary. He fondly recalls the 1963 deathbed vigil for Aldous Huxley: Leary brought him a new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as well as the LSD that the author of Brave New World took just before he shuffled off this mortal coil. "He was so cheerful and funny," says Leary. "So sarcastic and all that." When...
...vigil was the culmination of Take Back the Night Week, a series of events sponsored by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and 10 other student groups concerned about women's issues...
...speeches were punctuated by long moments of silence which, according to participants and organizers alike, were an integral part of the vigil...
...whirling-dervishness could barely imagine him motionless, much less dead. And they didn't bother hiding their sorrow. Clinton, whose overabundance of emotion has made him a target of jokes in the past, assumed the mantle of national minister for the rituals of consolation. On Wednesday, after sitting vigil with Brown's wife and family, he paid a visit to the Commerce Department. Speaking without notes, the President thrummed into his preacher stance, drawing on Scripture from memory, invoking the Baptist lessons he knows in his bones and letting the richness of his drawl do its work while he eulogized...