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After Tragedies, New Orleans Celebrates End of Carnival

Associated Press

   NEW ORLEANS - Revelers dressed in costumes and reaching for beads
   thrown from floats will take to the streets when Carnival season
   reaches its peak, their celebration tinged with grief after two
   paradegoers were hit and killed by floats in the run-up to Fat Tuesday.
   Carnival season began Jan. 6 and ends Fat Tuesday after weeks of Mardi
   Gras parades, balls and merriment. This season's festivities have been
   marred by the deaths of the two people killed at separate parades in
   recent days.

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