Eerie Parallel, from East Sider
The Sunday Times May 6, 2007: China aghast at `sacrifice' of 288 pupils
The schoolchildren perished because they were ordered to sit down in their theatre seats so that Communist party officials could leave first.
I attended a Barbra Streisand Madison Square Garden concert in 1994.
At its end, the vast crowd was compressed and channeled through a couple of narrow side exits, not the main corridors. Why? The VIPs — Madelaine Albright and ex-Mayor Dinkins' entourages — had priority.