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...hard to fit in," he says of his assimilation-minded countrymen, "they don't even know who they are"), reminds us that there were many left out of the American Dream. Hwang is more respectful of the old characters too: the sexy nightclub singer Linda Low (Sandra Allen) was a conniving man eater in the old show; now she's a warm, sisterly and surprisingly full-blooded character. And if Salonga's stolidity as Mei-Li gets to be a little monotonous, she's the calm center of a show that is always entertaining and frequently affecting...
ACQUITTED. former mayor of York, PA., CHARLIE ROBERTSON, 68, of the murder of Lillie Belle Allen, a black woman killed in that city's 1969 race riots; in York. Two other white men were convicted of second-degree murder in the case; six more had pleaded guilty earlier...
...onto the murderous rampage of the past three weeks. And now we have two names, two faces to attach to our suspicions: a father figure, and, unbelievably, a 17-year-old boy. For their roles, as yet unproven, in the sniper killings, John Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad are our Persons of the Week...
...What do we know about them? We know that John Allen Muhammad, nee Williams, is a Gulf War veteran, formerly stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington State. According to the Associated Press, after serving in the Louisiana National Guard from 1978 to 1985, Muhammad served in the U.S. Army between November 1985 and April 1996, joining the Oregon National Guard in 1995. He trained as a machinist and combat engineer, according to military sources, and received a badge for his excellence in marksmanship. He never received formal sniper training. His police record is clean, the Associated Press reports, except...
...John Allen Muhammad - or Williams, as he was known during his 17 years in the military - was no standout soldier, nor a trained sniper. But he was a crack shot. After a day in which Montgomery County Police determined that a rifle found in Muhammad's car was the weapon used in 11 out of 14 sniper shootings that have terrorized the Washington, D.C. area over the past month, a source close to the Maryland investigation offered TIME some insights into the suspect's military career...