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...tendency to think that what is good for us individually is good for everyone else as well - to mistake what is in our own best interest for the common good. We see this every day in ways large and small. In the case of someone like Timothy McVeigh, the consequences are monstrous and tragic; in the case of campaign finance reform, they often become farcical...
...Timothy McVeigh believed that because he hated the government everyone else did too, and that any action he took against the government would be in not only his best interest but everyone else's. He took the ordinary human vice of myopia and turned it into the very face of evil. It's a narcissism of colossal proportions. The final indignity is that the man who murdered dozens of children - calling them "collateral damage" -considered smuggling his own sperm out of prison so that he could sire children...
Texas won in a rout last year (40 to 11), but Oklahoma led the country in per-capita executions. And the state is beginning 2001 ambitiously. It can't claim credit if Timothy McVeigh is put to death--he's a federal prisoner--but it has already scheduled eight of its own through Feb. 1. And one of the two last week included the first black woman put to death in the U.S. in nearly a half-century...
While the chat rooms are filling a void for millions of men, the gay community's relationship with AOL is more of a love-hate affair. In 1998 an AOL employee let slip the identity of gay naval officer Timothy R. McVeigh to a Navy investigator, resulting in McVeigh's discharge for violation of the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. AOL issued a public apology, but complaints have persisted that AOL holds gay customers to different, stricter standards, both in chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want...
...think [the student opinion] will have an impact on the trustees, but I wish it had made more of an impact on the committee," McVeigh said. "The social life is so great the way it is. We don't want to lose that...