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Too Hot to Handle
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They did not wear saffron robes, nor was their desperate act immortalized
in a photograph of bright flames engulfing stoic martyrs. Instead, they
were wrapped in somber padded jackets, and their fiery protest was captured
only on a grainy T.V. clip. But like the self-immolating monks of Saigon
nearly four decades ago, the five believers who quietly doused themselves...