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Each night the man and the boy sat hunched over the same table, playing chess in Stuart's Coffee House in the seaside town of Bellingham, Wash. sometimes they would play until midnight. The man, John Allen Muhammad, 41, did what little talking had to be done. The boy, 17-year-old Lee Malvo, listened. Whenever cafe employees intruded with small talk, he would glance to Muhammad, as if for permission, before answering. They drank only plain coffee, as the college students and patrons around them indulged in smoothies and tarts and poetry readings. And each game ended the same...
...that paralyzed some Washington suburbs for three weeks may have begun months earlier with a string of violent crimes stretching from Washington State to the Southeastern U.S. Police chiefs in Tacoma, Wash., and Baton Rouge, La., announced last week that the two men charged in the sniper shootings, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Malvo, 17, may be linked to other killings. These crimes, however, seem to have been committed at closer range than the Washington-area murders. Like the failed liquor-store robbery in Montgomery, Ala., that provided authorities with the case's first major break, the Baton Rouge...
...Stephen Allen, campaign director of the Coalition Against Taxpayer Funded Political Campaigns, disagrees that the wording is misleading...
...Allen, who calls the law “welfare for politicians,” says funding Clean Elections takes money away from vital state services and calls Clean Elections advocates overly optimistic about the law’s potential to reform the campaign finance system...
...Allen counters that 45 of the 48 states that are more competitive than Massachusetts operate without public-funding laws...