Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sprinted through high school in suburban Evergreen Park, not bothering with his junior year, and made only passing gestures at social contact. He did join the band for two years (he played the trombone) and the Coin Club, Biology Club, German Club and the Math Club, but he never stayed long and did not strike his classmates as weird or worrisome--unlike another student who wound up in jail. He did have one notable hobby, though: "I remember Ted had the know-how of putting together things like batteries, wire leads, potassium nitrate and whatever and creating explosions," recalls...
...Kansas, where they also found detonator cords with blasting caps. After McVeigh's arrest, traces of explosives were detected on his clothing and in his car. Prosecutors will argue that McVeigh and Nichols stashed the fertilizer in rented storage facilities, then mixed and assembled their bomb in a park near Nichols' farm. To clinch its case, the prosecution does have one star witness: Michael Fortier, another Army buddy of McVeigh's arrested in connection with the case. Last summer Fortier cut a deal to testify against his friend in return for lesser charges. He says he and McVeigh cased...
...REPORT ON THE end of the world, and I'm still here. Given all the recent goings-on, the story I came to cover seems almost cliched: a heavily armed survivalist cult, the Church Universal and Triumphant, was preparing to ride out Armageddon in the mountains north of Yellowstone Park. The roads were clogged with supply-filled U-Haul vans. In Livingston, the town where I now live, the store shelves had been cleared of staples from tampons to dried beans to rifle shells. The locals were scared, and there was talk of violence. As the appointed day drew near...
...Conner family came to its senses a week later in another Roseanne episode, which satirized a Disney-style theme park where workers are brainwashed into cheery uniformity. Yet viewers could be excused for feeling a bit like outsiders at a family dinner where all the conversation consists of in-jokes. Ever since the Walt Disney Co. announced its $19 billion purchase of ABC last summer, Hollywood has looked for signs that the network of Home Improvement, Ted Koppel and NYPD Blue is being transformed into a subdivision of the Magic Kingdom. Leave it to Roseanne to get the issue...
...toughest task that the Crimson faces is a psychological one. Harvard hasn't really played a good game all year, while the Colossus of College Park certainly has. Consequently, it will be very easy for the Harvard players to become emotionally defeated this afternoon--especially if Maryland gets off to a quick lead...