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While there, Walsh led his team to upset top-seeded and fourth-ranked UCLA. After defeating fourth-seeded Stetson in the second rond, the Crimson's run ended with losses to Oklahoma State and a rematch with UCLA in the double-elimination tournament...
...death penalty, but if not McVeigh, then who? Perhaps some people will understand his hatred of the Federal Government and his desire to blow up the building in Oklahoma City. Perhaps some will even be persuaded by his delusions that Federal Government workers were his enemies and that he was driven to attack them. But to deliberately choose a time that would kill the most people defies imagination. The retiree checking on his Social Security payment was McVeigh's enemy? The veteran applying for a Veterans Administration loan was his enemy? Parking a van loaded with explosives in front...
While the families and friends of the Oklahoma City bombing victims have my deepest sympathy, I cannot help shuddering at the inhumanity displayed by the people who cheered when McVeigh was sentenced to death. This showed they are capable of the same anger and desire to take a life. Are we no better than he is? JEFF GEBAUER Dubuque, Iowa
Pope puts it this way: "I've been in a lot of communities in my lifetime. I was near a community in Oklahoma one time that had the champion cow-chip-throwing contest. And there's a little community not far from us over here that has lizard races. What it all comes down to is having something to create an interest in your community. And we have something to create interest, and that creates an inflow of people, and that creates dollars, and that's what we're all about." He hands a visitor a lapel pin emblazoned with...
...cold glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they do not know the Timothy McVeigh who murdered innocent men, women and children. Timothy McVeigh is no longer the sweet kid they want to remember... While Timothy McVeigh has had the benefit of his parents asking...