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...smog. Now the air is cleaner." The morning of his speech, he had overflown the Willamette National Forest, its mountaintops scalped by clear-cutting. But rather than preaching doom, he boasts of recent blockades to protect old-growth enclaves. "I hate environmentalists who are always grouchy," he explains afterward. "They forget the joy of making a difference...
...routine level, men lie to get women in bed ("you're beautiful," "my wife doesn't understand me"), lie when they are there (witness the hilarity that greets Jim Carrey's "I've had better" to a postcoital inquiry in the movie Liar Liar), and lie afterward ("I'll call you in the morning...
...Back then, all the scholarships were limited to men," she says. "I applied for the Fulbright because that made me mad, but when I realized afterward that was my motivation, I declined...
...other ways. Hartzler spent 100 hours preparing him for his time on the stand. As a result, Fortier responded forthrightly to Hartzler's questions, and to Jones' too. He described how McVeigh served as best man at his wedding, held at a Las Vegas casino in July 1994. Soon afterward, Fortier said, McVeigh began to talk about taking "positive, offensive action" against the government. A plan began to take shape. By October, McVeigh and Terry Nichols had chosen a target: the federal building in Oklahoma City. (Nichols, the other person charged in the bombing, will be tried after McVeigh.) McVeigh...
...general discharge is a much milder outcome than a dishonorable one, Flinn may never be allowed to fly for the Air Force again, including in the National Guard or military reserves, which Flinn had hoped to do. Still, Flinn seemed pleased with the decision; she left the courtroom afterward with a triumphant smile on her face and a bouquet of red roses. While she can continue her flying career as a commercial airline pilot, the Air Force is losing one of its best in the elite group of 600 B-52 pilots, one who had been recognized as "an outstanding...