One cry of "room for a few more on top" and they're right back in the dorm, the randiest future captain-of-industry thwarting their desperate escape with a well-thrown handful of marbles.
"It makes one cry to see the spectacle of these days in which human beings are treated as commercial goods," Francis said.
For the 30 minutes following, and in an episode for which one can forgive the slick choreography, the victims' closest surviving relatives spoke, one by one, quoting from the report and then ending with one cry: innocent!
Better than perhaps any living American, he knows that courage on the front line is one thing, and on the campaign stage quite another, knows how tiny and harmless the seeds of fanaticism can seem, how one cry of "kill him" can crescendo into a chorus that can't be stifled.
For the record, the one-set match went to a tiebreak – let no one cry fix – and Clijsters, the youngest of the quartet at 25, who will attempt a comeback later this year having become a mother in 2008, and Henman prevailed 7 5.
I had seen men in some personal situations, but I had never seen one cry.
