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...have concluded that McVeigh and his associates were eager amateurs. According to one investigator, "If they were truly mad bombers, they could have brought the building down, and they didn't do it." The feds also continue to pursue the theory that McVeigh was a member of a close-knit band of extremists impervious to such traditional law-enforcement tools as infiltration and electronic surveillance...
...team athlete or actor knows, working together towards a single goal creates a very peculiar kind of bond, one not easily broken. While Ramos says shared ethnicity certainly reinforces this connection, he says the time spent rehearsing for performances makes his group especially tight-knit...
...news of her death was a bitter blow to many Texans, especially Mexican-American youths, for whom Selena had become both an icon and a role model. She was the embodiment of young, smart, hip, Mexican-American youth-wearing midriff-baring bustiers and boasting of a tight-knit family and a down-to-earth personality, a Madonna without the controversy. Hundreds of teenagers, many weeping, gathered at the scene of the shooting, while on the other side of town a long procession of cars passed the lower-middle-class home where Selena lived. Many fans placed balloons and notes...
...star-power and glamour nearly vanquish his acting skills in a throwback to his "21 Jump Street" days as a brooding teen heartthrob. The camera, too, is seduced, almost comically drawn ever-closer to his face, even when he tries to hide in the depths of his knit brows during particularly emotional moments...
Barry Dank, a sociologist at California State University at Long Beach who argues that such prohibitions "infantilize" students, has formed a loosely knit group of about 100 professors and students called Consenting Academics for Sexual Equity. He believes the spread of campus rules on romance will leave professors less accessible to students. "It's creating a paranoia that is really affecting whatever is left of an academic community," he says...