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...remove evangelical tracts from waiting rooms--to participate. To its proponents, charitable choice is simply about treating churches equally. "Just because an organization has a cross hanging in its window doesn't mean we should discriminate against it and prevent it from helping people," says Representative J.C. Watts of Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEEDING THE FLOCK | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

COLUMBIA, N.H.: Fearing that 67-year-old Carl Drega was planning another Oklahoma or World Trade Center bombing, authorities set fire to his barn late last night. The retired Drega, who went on a murder spree before being shot by police Tuesday, had bought 600 pounds of ammonium nitrate and 60 gallons of diesel fuel prior to his rampage ? the same ingredients used in America's worst terrorist attacks. He then stored them in his barn, which police feared he had booby-trapped. If Carl Drega was thinking of adding to his body-count from beyond the grave, his plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 67-year-old Killer May Have Planned Bombing | 8/21/1997 | See Source »

DENVER: For the first time since Terry Nichols was accused as Oklahoma City terrorist bomber Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator, prosecutors who are trying to build a death penalty case against Nichols say they have evidence he built the bomb. They also say in court motions made public yesterday that Nichols acquired fertilizer and other bomb ingredients, robbed a gun dealer to pay for the bomb and helped McVeigh drop off the getaway car. McVeigh was formally sentenced to death last week. Nichols goes on trial Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nichols Built Oklahoma Bomb, Say Prosecutors | 8/20/1997 | See Source »

...said an Oklahoma-born country crooner like Garth Brooks wouldn't fit in in a tough-minded, hip-hop-favoring metropolis like Manhattan? When Brooks played New York City's Central Park last Thursday before a crowd estimated at between 250,000 (according to the cops) and 750,000 (according to Brooks' camp), four of the country star's first five songs were clogged with enough sex and violence to do Bone Thugs-N-Harmony proud. Brooks kicked things off with the country-rock song Rodeo ("Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud"), followed that with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: GARTH BROOKS UNPLUGGED | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...your writer bring Jewel's "sexy yellow swimsuit" into an article about women revolutionizing the music industry? The mention stops short of making a point and is irrelevant to the music these women make with their guitars, pianos and voices. EMILY G. GRAHAM Oklahoma City, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

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