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In New York, anticipating what could be the largest political demonstration in the city's history, officials assigned 5,000 police officers and 1,000 other municipal workers to handle the crowds. Extra buses and subway cars were to be put in service to ease traffic congestion. Churches and...
The large crowd, including many pairs of proud parents, spilled out of the pews and into the aisles but listened eagerly to what one senior called "incisive comments for people who go to professional schools and get lost in themselves."
Soldiers wielding automatic rifles patrolled the dusty plaza outside as 14 priests celebrated a requiem Mass in the village church of Chalatenango, El Salvador. Local children, black-veiled peasant women and silver-haired men filled the pews alongside relatives of the deceased. Inside the coffins lay the bodies of two...
There were 2,000 of them, laughing and waving their programs in the humid evening air. They overflowed from the pews onto folding chairs; they stood on windowsills, squeezed into doorways and gathered in the street outside. Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church had not seen such a festive crowd...
When she was eleven, Rosemary Daniell sat in the Bolton, Ga., Methodist church and "dreamed of marrying the blond boy" a few pews away, "in a baby-blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while...