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...brought it up from Mexico on my pickup truck and assembled it," Rose says...
...Fireside Lounge, a campus watering hole where he was a favorite regular, Shepard, 21, was enough at ease to strike up a conversation with two tall, muscular men, Russell Henderson, 21, and Aaron McKinney, 22, both high school dropouts. In fact, Shepard was comfortable enough to get into a pickup truck with them at about midnight. According to the police in Laramie, Wyo., the pair had apparently led him to believe that they too were gay. But all pretense vanished as the journey got under way. Police say the three were barely a half-mile on Grand Avenue, Laramie...
Somehow word of those offensive floats failed to make the mainstream. This year, the firefighters decided at the last minute to call their float, a decorated pickup truck, "Black to the Future, Broad Channel, 2098." It was intended, they said, to make the point that nearly all-white Broad Channel will, in the next hundred years, become integrated. To make that "point," such as it is, they wore Afro wigs and blackface, dribbled basketballs and threw pieces of watermelon at the crowd...
...could help put a human face on the attacks. In Nairobi dozens of eyewitnesses and survivors have told their tales, but every one of the accounts differs on important points of detail. It was a lone bomber; there were three; there were four or five. It was a light pickup; it was a three-ton truck. It bore diplomatic license plates; it had no license plates. The FBI is sorting through all these conflicting stories, feeding them into its state-of-the-art Rapid Start mobile computer system, which can discern similarities in the accounts or subtle patterns of association...
...young woman who rented the mansion's carriage house said last week that she suspected something rotten "from the second day I lived here," and that not all the chaps who mistakenly came to her door looking for afternoon delights were well scrubbed. "One guy got out of a pickup truck," she said. As the woman spoke, Dempsey, who was released on her own recognizance, happened to pull up in her Jaguar. "You've got something to say?" Dempsey yelled at the tenant. "You'll have plenty to say on the 15th!" As Dempsey drove off, the trembling woman said...