Word: oklahomas
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GARRY CHAPMAN Oklahoma City, Okla...
...Supreme Court ruling, the government has been allowed to call victims and their relatives to share their grief during the sentencing phase of trials, to make the victim as real and present in the courtroom as the killer is. In the sentencing of Timothy McVeigh for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, however, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch asserted the right to bar any victim testimony that was too emotionally loaded: "The penalty phase hearing here cannot be turned into some type of a lynching," he said...
...disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene——are often shaken as well.Professor of Psychology Richard J. McNally cited studies showing how rescue workers or firefighters were affected by terrorist acts like Sept. 11 or the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.“If you’re just witnessing the carnage and the physical destruction of the city, that can be sort of a distressing experience,” said McNally, who serves on the Harvard Medical School’s Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group, which...
Senate foes of loosening the immigration law are not giving up either, despite the Judiciary Committee vote. As debate opened last week, Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe gave a taste of what is to come when he offered an amendment that would solve the problem of insufficient border surveillance by adding more border guards, deputizing retired police officers to patrol the frontier and authorizing citizen militias to hunt and capture illegal border crossers. Inhofe argued that the conditions in which captured border jumpers are held--he mentioned the provision of sports facilities and good food--are too pleasant to deter aliens...
...think that anyone could enjoy blasting away at quail. The quail's little bobwhite whistle is one of the most beautiful sounds. Quail are farmers' friends, eating insects that are harmful to crops. These gentle birds harm no one and take good care of their families. Sherrill Durbin Mounds, Oklahoma...