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DENVER: After deliberating for eleven hours, McVeigh?s jury gathered in the Denver courtroom at 5:30 EDT on Friday and answered a series of questions assessing everything from his personal history to his culpability and intent in the Oklahoma bombing. They had voted on an excruciatingly long list of factors to reach their final choice: Life or death. In the end, the jury, standing one by one, affirmed that they had chosen the ultimate penalty: death by lethal injection. As McVeigh was escorted from the courtroom after the verdict, he turned to his family and appeared to mouth...
...they will in the next two weeks return another $1.5 million in donations identified as coming from foreign or other suspect sources, bringing the refund total to more than $3 million since the campaign finance controversy erupted. Clinton has reason to dread his job Wednesday. After all, A-list donors who like to think they?re financing policy may recoil at being asked to replace illegitimate money. They may also be growing wearing of being asked to pony up the very soft money contributions that President Clinton says he wants to make illegal...
...most recalcitrant differential equations, they couldn't pass messages. The mainframes spoke a different language from the desktops at the library, and so on. The solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband. By 1990, as the first hints of the Internet emerged, the company went public. The founding couple left, while Cisco began its sprint to stardom...
...www.fbi.gov/ See if you're on the most-wanted list. Clean-cut and strict. Site cautions that its name, initials and seal are "restricted" and may be used "only with written permission...
...other states, the problem is the criteria for entry. To begin with, only members of the European Union may join, so that excludes all the former Warsaw Pact states. Then the applicants face strict requirements set by the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. At the top of the list is the demand that a country's budget deficit must not be higher than 3% of its gross domestic product. That is a tough one, and most European governments have been energetically slashing budgets (read welfare programs) and raising taxes for several years. It's so tough, in fact, that even Germany...