Word: mahone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the cement of a conspiracy case? Well, says Jones, Strassmeir also knows Dennis Mahon, late of the Ku Klux Klan, now a leader of the White Aryan Resistance. Mahon sometimes spent weekends at Elohim City in a trailer he kept there, and Strassmeir sometimes stayed at Mahon's home in Tulsa. Jones says he has turned over to the prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says...
Adults are reduced to hazarding standard, sad guesses about what motivates these daredevils. "They're probably bored," says local psychologist Robert Craig. "It's cold and rains a lot. It's not the most exciting place to be if you're a teenager." Mimi Mahon, a nursing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, offers the truism that "kids believe they are impervious to injury." Patricia Shingledecker, Michael's mother, suggests helplessly, "All people somewhere are looking for a thrill...
...Caravaggio -- was slighted. The first Guercino exhibition was not held until three centuries after his death, in his ! birthplace in central Italy, the small Emilian city of Cento, in 1967. His rediscovery was due almost entirely to the love and labors of one English art historian, the late Denis Mahon, who wrote the basic texts on him, defined the canon of his work and was probably the last connoisseur to "own" single- handedly a major European artist in this...
...family. Last year she and her husband, along with five-year-old daughter Sylvia, a beauty with sparkling green eyes and boundless hugs, walked from Mexico to Texas. When they reached Houston, Sylvia was battling bronchitis. Her parents had no idea where to turn for help. Then they met Mahon. She guided them to a local medical clinic, and before long the fire returned to Sylvia's eyes. "This is the only help I have," explains the woman, who speaks no English. "Without it, my baby would've died...
...guns won't solve the barrio's problems, which include domestic violence. Mahon has discovered that wife beating is common. One volunteer mom knows this dark secret all too well. She has survived her own tormented marriage, but a teenage friend has a boyfriend who beats her. "No man that hits you loves you," the volunteer told her. But the advice did not take hold, for her friend, now pregnant, is back with the boyfriend. So the volunteer is determined to get her friend the prenatal care she never got. "I'm going to show her that she doesn...