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...notorious strongmen of Africa? "I've been doing the same thing for 50 years," he says with a shrug. "Just a bigger scale. Same damn thing." Having picked up a degree in geological engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Van Dyke got his start in the dusty fields of Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1951. His mentor, wildcatter S.D. Johnson, taught him the basics: find a farmer with promising land and get him to lease you the rights, then find an oil company willing to drill. Van Dyke hitchhiked to Fort Worth and Dallas to make his first deals...
...practically impossible to drink a beer without glancing in the direction of a bored and annoyed police presence. Why is it like this? Because Harvard knows that any Harvard news is national news, and no one likes bad press. Twenty cases of alcohol poisoning could go unreported at Wichita Community Tech, but if a Harvard student pisses on a fence in a back corner of a tailgate, you can be sure it’s on the front page of every newspaper in the land.There is some validity to Harvard’s concerns. Whether it is a blessing...
...Further perverting the purity of this persona is Charlie’s choice of hang outs. In particular, he seems to spend almost all of his time inhabiting strip clubs and doused in alcohol. “Why someone would spend Christmas Eve at a strip club in Wichita is a philosophically open question,” he says. “How did we end up in this sexual bus stop in purgatory?”But glimmers of the Cusack Character shine through in his interactions with strip club manager and full-time love interest Renata (Connie Nielsen...
...President has doubtless emboldened those who differ with Darwin and furthered one goal of that movement: he has taught all of us the controversy. --With reporting by Melissa August/ Washington, Jeremy Caplan/ New York, Jeff Chu and Constance E. Richards/ Greenville, Rita Healy/ Denver, Christopher Maag/ Cleveland, Bud Norman/ Wichita, Adam Pitluk/ Dallas, Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles and Sean Scully/ Philadelphia
CONFESSED. DENNIS RADER, 60, serial killer whose self-coined nickname was BTK, for "bind, torture, kill"; to the first-degree murders of 10 people between 1974 and '91; in a courtroom in Wichita, Kans. In a chillingly matter-of-fact narrative, the former Boy Scout leader and church-council president recounted how he had comforted one of his victims by getting her a glass of water and provided a pillow for another, then killed them. Because Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the killings, Rader will probably be sentenced to life in prison...