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Although the ashes were contained within the bag and the room sustained no damage, McCarthy said, the air was so thick with smoke that firefighters had to search the room by touch...
...once went on a three-week tour of Europe with more than 20 family members in tow. His lavish parties would feature the host wandering around cradling a bottle of Dom Perignon, sometimes encouraging guests to jump in the pool fully clothed. His corporate executives would often find thick, neat packets of hundred-dollar bills under their plates when they went to Keating's house for dinner. Family members got a little more: Keating put relatives--including his son, sons-in-law and daughters--on the payroll and funneled them more than $37 million in about five years. But because...
...chooses to renew itself in the dead of winter. From George Washington's first Inaugural in late April 1789 the ceremony was pushed back to early March, and from F.D.R. to the present it has been locked in this hard, white burial vault of a month. The Dakotas, frozen thick for weeks, sent an ice wind east for the occasion, but it thawed a bit by Monday. The government bundled up before the fluted columns like an ice sculpture at a wedding--an impressive, preposterous construction molded to take one's mind off the reality that the in-laws loathe...
...keeps Harvard in the thick of the Ivy League race, and puts them in good position as they face Yale tonight before heading south to play league-leading Penn and Princeton next weekend. Brown 55 Harvard...
...could beat the Giants single-handedly, even miniaturized to a height of twelve inches. In ten years, he led Chicago to a 112-68 record, six NFC Central titles, three NFC Championship games and the Bears' only Super Bowl victory. The irony, if you looked for it, was as thick as the exhaust fumes from the ZZ Top motorcycle armada that hung in the poorly-ventilated stadium air. Eleven years ago, in this same Superdome, it was Ditka who coached a charismatic Jim McMahon-led Bears squad to a 46-10 Super Bowl rout over these same Patriots...