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OKLAHOMA CITY: As fan mail goes, it doesn't get much better than having the FBI request it as evidence. Oklahoma Gazette reporter Phil Bacharach handed over to federal authorities a handwritten letter written by Timothy McVeigh last November in which the Oklahoma City bombing suspect detailed his beef against the Justice Department. The Gazette, a local arts weekly, made the letter public Tuesday. In the note, dated November 26, 1996, McVeigh commends an article Bacharach had written about him and provided this clarification: "You quote me as saying that the FBI are ?wizards at PR.? What I actually said...
...half-escapist "chipped beef" a young, impoverished David imagines a wealth that can satisfy his lust for snobbery: "We give anonymously because the sackfuls of thank-you letters break our hearts with their clumsy handwriting and hopelessly phonetic spelling." Later, in "the incomplete quad," he recalls with nostalgia his shattered dreams of Harvard: "I wasn't sure what a quad was, but I knew that I wanted one desperately. My college friends would own horses and monogrammed shoehorns...
...seduces a Spanish corporal named Don Jose (Lazlo Berdo), who is in love with a meek girl named Micaela (Larissa Ponomarenko). When Don Jose is jailed for refusing to arrest Carmen, his wild new love captures Escamillo (Gino DiMarco), a proud bullfighter, with her charms. (Music lovers--the "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" theme parades around at this point.) However, she runs away with Don Jose once he escapes from prison...
Tupac's demise in Las Vegas six months ago was supposed to have a cathartic effect on the rap world. In the wake of his death, it seemed that the East Coast-West Coast beef might be squashed. When Quincy Jones addressed Prof. Dwight Andrews' class on black music several weeks ago, he claimed that Tupac's death was forcing a critical reexamination of gangsta posturing in rap music. Reports from the recent Soul Train Music Awards claimed that a new harmony had reigned. The next night, a drive-by shooting ended Biggie's life...
...desperate search for food beneath 4-ft.-deep snow, the animals are using routes that are maintained for the snowmobilers to make their way to forage areas at the park's perimeter and on into Montana. That state's livestock agents, fearful that the animals will infect beef cattle with a disease called brucellosis, are shipping the animals to slaughterhouses as soon as they cross the border. Or sometimes, with the help of park employees, shooting them on the spot...