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...told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't--it was true--but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared...
...told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't - it was true - but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared...
...reason, I think, is guilt. About 11 million Americans will travel abroad this summer--80% of them as tourists. And such hordes can quickly ruin the very places they love. That's why environmental groups were so quick to criticize plans recently announced by the Mexican government to develop Baja California's unspoiled eastern coast. Those who remember a charming locale before the tourists arrived understandably sigh for the past. I have just returned from a week visiting friends in Crete, where a mountain gorge that I first hiked in solitary silence in 1973 now sees 260,000 visitors...
...Americans first, Americans last, Americans always," he said. "From that firm foundation you can march on. Abandon it and chaos will come as when the civilization of Rome crashed down in irremediable ruin...
...what about all those inflammatory admissions McVeigh has made over the past three years, bragging about his role in the attack and dissecting at great lengths his lack of emotional response to the tragedy? Couldn?t all that language ruin any chances for an appeal? Not necessarily, says Goldfarb. "One could conceivably argue that because he only went public after the conviction, and with the understanding that all the evidence had been considered, the statements should be disregarded. Someone might say he would have chosen his own course of action differently if all the evidence had been present...