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...left, which is led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her advisory committee on democracy promotion last week, Richard Soudriette, president of the Washington-based International Foundation for Election Systems, volunteered that he had just returned from Nicaragua. "Coming from Oklahoma," he told her, "where we're familiar with people who are born again, it appears that the future President, Daniel Ortega, is at least claiming that he has had a change of heart." Rice answered tersely...
...your memoir you talk about your grandfather, Oklahoma Senator T.P. Gore, who was blind. What do you think you inherited from...
...international terrorists, including al-Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid; mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing Ramzi Yousef and at least seven of his accomplices; and four men convicted of involvement in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. There are American terrorists too. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, spent time there before being transferred to Indiana, where he was executed in 2001. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is still at ADX, as is Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The common thread running through the crimes committed by these men accounts for the nickname given to the highest-security...
...Just ask Oklahoma fans...
...raised in a religious household. My maternal grandparents, who hailed from Kansas, had been steeped in Baptist and Methodist teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal...