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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who believes there is "only one species of human on the planet" has never shopped at Wal-Mart. BETH WITHERELL Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...would only be natural to assume that TIME has been banned in Kansas. MARTHA DOWD Peoria, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Narcissistic or not, the shows raise obvious Peoria-play questions. Movie Stars had a relatively strong start amid weak summer competition, while Beggars' ratings have not taken off, despite fairly positive reviews. Action, however, will prove a big test. It's got notice for bringing pay cable's profanity to broadcast, but another risky import is the deep-insider view that worked for Larry Sanders' select, limited audience. (Creator and executive producer Chris Thompson, who was executive producer of Sanders, originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mirror Images | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...nation, WCOTC has at most a few thousand dues-paying $35-a-year members, many of whom were recruited on the Internet and have never so much as gathered in a beer hall. The group's headquarters is Hale's bedroom in his dad's house in East Peoria, Ill. It measures members' success by the number of racist leaflets they can distribute in a month, which is absurd to those of us who trash anything left under windshield wipers. A law school graduate, Hale can't even practice his profession: a state bar panel said in December that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hate on The Rise? | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, last week the answer seemed to be yes. Benjamin Smith, a 21-year-old WCOTC sympathizer who had been so close to Hale he moved to Peoria to be near him, recently became convinced that the group's goal of white victory in the coming racial holy war couldn't be achieved through propaganda alone. Setting off July 2 from the Chicago suburbs where he was raised, Smith shot 11 Asian Americans, blacks and Jews, killing two, before committing suicide July 4 in southern Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hate on The Rise? | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

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