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...state court in McAlester, Oklahoma. Nichols is currently serving a federal life sentence for participating in the bombing, which killed 168 people. The new convictions stem from charges that Nichols played a key role in planning the attack and building the bomb. Co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh, who drove the truck containing the explosives, was executed...
...d?j? vu in Asia. The region's vulnerabilities stem from the long-standing deficiencies of internal demand?namely, the lack of support from private consumption. Until Asia establishes a better balance in its growth dynamic, the impacts of external disturbances will forever be magnified. The 1997 crisis drove this point home with a vengeance. Since then, Asia has concentrated its efforts on repairing the cracks in its financial architecture that proved so damaging back then. But no two crises are alike. The big risk for Asia, in my view, is that by focusing its attention on responding to the last...
...moments of high drama--the grace with which his father fulfilled his daily obligations. His principles are as simple as the book's chapter titles: "Work," "Faith" and "Discipline." Big Russ worked for the sanitation department in the morning, crashed diagonally on his bed for a spell and then drove a newspaper truck at night. When he was eligible to retire at age 55, he had accumulated 200 unused sick days...
...onlookers were from the Boston area. Maria Boroff drove with her partner and five-year-old daughter from Philadelphia to witness the historic event...
...year. As mortgage rates have fallen to four-decade lows, more folks have told the landlord to shove it and bought a house. Home ownership is at a record 69%. That trend, along with a weak economy that forced others to double up or move back home with Mom, drove the apartment vacancy rate to 7.1% last quarter, a 16-year high, reports REIS Inc., a real estate research firm. In many markets, rents have been declining...