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Most recently, Hayes served as assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where he developed and oversaw year-round training programs for football, basketball and soccer...
...succeed in any of its stated goals—and to our moral character—that Afghan civilian deaths have been called “collateral damage,” the same term used by Timothy McVeigh to describe children who died in the Oklahoma City bombings...
...also a fact that these families will get more money from charities and the government combined than anyone has so far received after the Oklahoma City bombing or the 1998 bombing of the Nairobi embassy. For that matter, if these victims had been killed in a drive-by shooting, they probably would not have received more than a few thousand dollars from state victim-compensation funds...
...fair to compare Sept. 11 with a street crime or even Oklahoma City. After all, these recent attacks involved an orchestrated, simultaneous security breach on four airplanes, carried out by 19 men who had been living and training on our soil. A better comparison might be past international terrorist attacks and plane crashes. Those that have been resolved - and that's a major distinction - do show higher payouts than the average amount likely to come out of the Sept. 11 federal fund...
...that getting the planes up again was the single biggest "multiplier" that could revive the economy on every level. So the Democrats, who usually balk at limiting the ability to sue, accepted the idea of an airline bailout - as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...