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...survivalist. For cash, he allegedly became a backwoods pot farmer and enjoyed the fruits of his work, getting stoned and watching Cheech & Chong movies. He joined the Army in 1987 and was discharged 18 months later; investigators think he may have learned about firearms and explosives while stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. Two months before the Olympics bombing in Atlanta, he sold his childhood home for $65,000. The buyers discovered an underground hiding space in it; Rudolph had dubbed it "the root cellar...
DIED. JANET COLLINS, 86, elegant, electric prima ballerina for the Metropolitan Opera House, and the first black artist to perform at the Met; in Fort Worth, Texas. She won acclaim on Broadway in Cole Porter's 1950 musical Out of This World, and after her Met debut in 1951--four years before Marian Anderson's celebrated debut there--went on to principal roles in such operas as Aida and Carmen...
...been a challenge. Smaller airlines gain an advantage by flying direct and often using less congested secondary airports, like the one in Long Beach, Calif., where JetBlue, based at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, has established a big presence. Spirit, based in Miramar, Fla., uses Fort Lauderdale instead of Miami International Airport...
Fowler-Finn currently runs the public schools in Fort Wayne, Ind., an urban district that is much larger in population but demographically similar to Cambridge...
...credited with having improved public confidence in a cash-strapped district and improving minority achievement. He has said that he will apply his experience in reducing the achievement gap in Fort Wayne schools by 30 to 40 percent when he arrives in Cambridge...