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...football player, senior-class president and an above-average student. But he wasn't the star. That distinction belonged to Lynne Vincent, Cheney's girlfriend and future wife. A straight-A scholar, Lynne was elected Mustang Queen, the equivalent of most popular girl. She was also a state-champion baton twirler, a big deal in 1950s Wyoming. To begin her routine, Lynne would set both ends of a baton on fire and throw it in the air while her boyfriend stood inconspicuously off to the side holding a coffee can filled with water. When Lynne was finished with her pyrotechnic...
...term Congressman, Secretary of Defense to the first President Bush and Vice President to the second - Cheney's success has derived from his unparalleled skill at serving as the discreet, effective, loyal adviser to higher-profile leaders. He did once flirt with the idea of twirling the flaming baton himself, considering a 1996 run for President. But the idea of putting himself on that stage - selling himself in sound bites, baring his soul to profile writers and talk-show hosts - would have required a rewiring of Cheney's political DNA. Instead he took an offer in business, figuring he would...
...performance and styling used to cost at least $50,000--often $100,000 or more for the likes of a high-end Porsche. Comparable vehicles now sell for less than $40,000, a pricing sweet spot that is expanding the market. Says Donald Kaufmann, 52, an insurance agent in Baton Rouge, La., who just bought the new Nissan: "I felt I was getting a lot of car for the dollar." Since Honda introduced its S2000 in 1999, sales of the $35,000 roadster have jumped nearly threefold. Mazda's Miata, introduced in 1989, is still purring along, with around...
Muhammad--then named John Allen Williams--tried on his first identity in his hometown of Scotlandville, a Mississippi River community in Baton Rouge, La. In high school he was a top football player, says James Johnson, an alumnus of the school who worked with the booster club. "I remember him as a good team player." After graduating in 1978, Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard, working as a carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked...
Last summer Muhammad and Malvo left Washington for good and headed east. In July they showed up in Baton Rouge, surprising his ex-wife Carol. Later that summer he apparently tracked down Mildred despite a restraining order. Vincent Davis, 26, who lives in a town house adjacent to Mildred's, says he recalls seeing Muhammad talking to her in front of her home three or four months ago. One night more recently, during the weeks of the shootings, another neighbor, Steven Perry, 31, saw the blue Caprice parked outside Mildred's house with a figure reclining in the front seat...