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When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, right-wing doomsayers saw him as a leading horseman of the apocalypse. After the 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge and the 1993 siege at Waco, suspicion of federal agencies and gun-control initiatives reached paranoid levels. Within days of the bombing, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Federal Government had caused the explosions so that it could justify new antiterrorist legislation. The number of active militia groups quadrupled in the year after Oklahoma City. A TIME cover story on the militia movement just...
Once Slobodan Milosevic surrendered April 1 after a shootout with Serbian police, there was little doubt that he would eventually be held responsible for his actions during the long years of war in the former Yugoslavia. The only question was where he should stand trial. The Serbian government under President Vojislav Kostunica has resisted extraditing the former dictator to the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, insisting that he be tried in Serbia for alleged crimes including corruption and abuse of power. Yet the Milosevic government’s atrocities against Muslims in Bosnia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo...
Tonight's semifinal will feature four of the nation's top five scorers between Harvard's duo of co-captain Jennifer Botterill and senior winger Tammy Shewchuk and Duluth's sophomore pair of Maria Rooth and Hanne Sikio. The game has the potential to turn into a shootout provided that the teams do not tighten...
Barring any further mishaps, though, Duke remains the team to beat in the tournament. Like I mentioned earlier, I predict that the Blue Devils' will defeat defending champion Michigan State on April 2nd in an old-fashioned shootout and claim its third championship in the last 11 years...
...easy when rap wars were organized by geography: East Coast vs. West Coast and so on. The apparent beef between tiny sex kittens LIL' KIM and FOXY BROWN is more confusing than the Balkans. New York City police surmise that a shootout last week involving 20 people and five guns occurred after Lil' Kim, left, and her entourage ran into rapper Capone and his entourage outside hip-hop radio station Hot 97. Capone, part of the duo Capone-N-Noreaga, is allied with Foxy Brown, inset, who proved you can rhyme "bitch" with "bitch" on a none too complimentary...