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...from the 1999 electrocution in Florida of Allen Lee Davis available on the Internet, executions are beginning to sneak into public view. McVeigh himself wants to go all the way. In a letter sent this month from his 10-foot-by-12-foot cell to the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman, he wrote, "It has been said that all of Oklahoma was a victim of the bombing. Can all of Oklahoma watch?" Federal prison officials quickly denied his request...
...money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman, while an Ohio environmentalist found even more reasons to condemn motor sport: "NASCAR is truly the winningest sport of all--it's tops in noise pollution, and beats out clean air and oil conservation. Wherever NASCAR's rubber meets the road, the human race is the loser...
Despite his inexperience, he pacified the New York press with his easy Oklahoman drawl and had a hot hand from behind...
...named J Mays (that's right--first initial, no period) leading a crusade to make the automobile matter again. Mays is the man who brought us the first car with turn-of-the-century distinction, Volkswagen's alluring "new" Beetle. In 1997 the then 42-year-old Oklahoman was tapped to become chief of design--the youngest ever--at Ford Motor Co., itself in the midst of a crusade to be different, better and above all more consumer focused...
...declared 16 counties disaster areas. The calamity will yield data on the meteorology of murderous storms. It will also fuel a campaign to assure that new homes built in Tornado Alley without traditional storm shelters include reinforced safe rooms. But the main message, at least according to the Daily Oklahoman, lay elsewhere. As it happens, last Thursday was the 48th annual Day of Prayer. "Right now in Oklahoma," the newspaper editorialized, "it sure seems like common sense to make every day a day of prayer...