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Cole, 39, owns a set of credentials that have aided him in reporting on Oklahoma City and its aftermath. A Notre Dame graduate, he went on to earn a law degree at UCLA. But the lure of journalism, which he had felt as a teenager, reasserted itself, and he took a job 10 years ago at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal as a staff writer. Stints at Business Week and Bloomberg's Business News followed before he joined Time in 1992 as a correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau...
...along, I wanted to cover legal issues and important cases," Cole says. "The Oklahoma City bombing story has allowed me to use my legal background in a perfect way. When you deal with lawyers like Jones, you understand how they develop strategy." The case against Tim McVeigh will take many months to unfold, and Cole is grateful for his "bird's-eye view" of this process. So are his colleagues and readers...
...Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City in 1986, "and my father named me after his favorite player, Mickey Cochrane. I grew up in Commerce, Oklahoma, and later became known as the Commerce Comet...Who am I? Hi, I'm Mickey Charles Mantle...
...OKLAHOMA SUSPECTS INDICTED...
Four months after the nation's deadliest terrorist attack, a federal grand jury indicted the two prime suspects in the Oklahoma City case, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, on bombing and murder charges that could bring the death penalty to both. The indictment identified McVeigh as the driver who detonated the truck bomb. As part of a deal with prosecutors, Michael Fortier, a close Army buddy of McVeigh's, pleaded guilty to lesser charges, including lying and failing to notify authorities about the crime. He is expected to become the government's star witness...