Word: graveyards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cabot, Lowell and Weld are as "Harvard" as names can get. A tradition of large donations from Boston bluebloods has made walking through campus feel like a stroll through a New England graveyard...
...demise of EgyptAir 990. That uncomfortable reality left many seeking explanations that sometimes bordered on the absurd. EgyptAir chairman Mohammed Fahim Rayan seemed ready to subscribe to a "new Bermuda Triangle theory"--namely that there is a curse on aircraft traveling up the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a graveyard that now contains the remains not only of John F. Kennedy Jr. but also of some of the passengers and crew aboard TWA Flight 800. No less than Mubarak himself seemed taken with the theory, urging the U.S. to investigate "something in the atmosphere, something in the weather." For many...
Standing outside the entrance to the graveyard in Salem, Mass., on Halloween night, they looked a little out of place: a handful of sober-looking men, in the middle of a stream of thousands of costumed teenagers, handing out red-and-white pamphlets warning revelers of their imminent damnation...
During the disturbance, some of the cops had to be diverted from guarding the graveyard, where the men with the pamphlets had long ago given up their perch by the entrance. So with no one to stop them, teenagers in costumes filtered into the cemetery, wandering bemused among the ancient headstones. Disrespectful, yes--but maybe an appropriate way to end a night devoted to mocking the past...
...high-speed pursuit of a state of grace that keeps eluding him. Frank, who in Martin Scorsese's new film Bringing Out the Dead is played in a sort of stunned frenzy by Nicolas Cage, is a New York City paramedic working Hell's Kitchen on the aptly named graveyard shift. He's been on the job too long, and lately its only compensation--the rush, the high of saving a life--has eluded him. He's famished, but he can't eat. He's exhausted, but his sleep is haunted, particularly by the vision of a young woman...