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...room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators have told Time that McVeigh possesses some $10,000 in cash and bank accounts. The money, along with the precision and power of the explosion, are leading the feds to believe...
Meanwhile, federal investigators are now focusing their attention on Kingman, Arizona, where McVeigh lived in a trailer park for five months last year with a pregnant girlfriend. During that period, officials say, a small bomb exploded in a residential area, damaging the windows of some houses but causing no injuries. Government agents are examining soil samples and fragments from the area for clues that may link the Arizona explosion to McVeigh. According to the New York Times, authorities were alerted to the Arizona connection when they tracked the paperwork on his 9-mm Glock handgun. McVeigh had filed a complaint...
That in itself was not a problem; the freshman borrowed a boat from the Tigers. The problem is that the trailer incident foreshadowed the Harvard heavyweight crew weekend...
...route to the 62nd running of the Compton Cup at Princeton, Harvard heavyweight crew had a bit of a problem with the boat trailer--it fell off. Although the varsity and JV shells were uninjured, minimal (but repairable) damage was done to the two freshman shells...
...also raises a few questions: the cacti suggest a Western desert, the Confederate flag suggests the South, and the ragged lawn chairs evoke a tornado-belt trailer park. The characters, perhaps, would be most at home in California, where the exploitative photographer and the body-obsessed model are recognized stereotypes. This melange of bad taste is not actively distracting, but picking the bad taste of a single region could have made the characters more clear...