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...time there, he lived with Michael Fortier, another Army buddy; although fbi agents have questioned him, they say Fortier is not John Doe No. 2. But Kingman residents mostly express surprise that a man so unobtrusive should now be so notorious. Bob Ragin, the owner of the Canyon West Mobile & RV Park, where McVeigh lived in a blue-and-white 40-ft. trailer for four months in 1993, recalls feeling sorry for McVeigh. He seemed to have few friends, says Ragin. "He struck me as someone just out of the service who was trying to figure out what...
...some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in tony Brentwood, California (where one parent periodically sends her gardener over to tend the grounds), raised $78,000 to subsidize a computer instructor, a librarian, a music and art teacher and teachers' aides. "If we didn't have money from the parents," says Hillary Krieger, a PTA president...
Brentwood's Kenter Canyon is a case in point. In contrast to contributing the $78,000 last year to the booster club for additional staff, parents gave only $5,000 to the PTA, which can't subsidize salaries and must turn over 20% of its revenues to a citywide fund for disadvantaged students. "Some parents become very hostile about how hard we work, and then have to turn over a chunk of it downtown," says PTA president Krieger...
...sounds of the Harvard Band echoed through the Garden like shouts into the Grand Canyon...
...named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast Highway and canyon passes packed with mud. Santa Barbara's mission-style historical district was a waist-deep gumbo of guck. Dramatic rescues were everywhere on television as heroes dangled from helicopters, plucking the stranded from the water's path. Authorities revised the damage estimates daily: $200 million, $300 million . . . As the floods...