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...Lord, was executed for the murder of a Jewish businessman and a black police officer. And when Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck, he used a forged South Dakota driver's license on which the date of issue was listed as April 19, 1993. "He probably meant that he woke up on that day," says Cole. "I can see his perspective on that...
...like the big one in 1970, or even the one five years ago that woke us up," said Blume Magruder '69, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, whowas at the Earthwatch table...
Last Wednesday morning, the Class of '98 woke up to find out where they will live for the rest of their undergraduate life. Previously, the students had selected their top four housing choices, and--except for the unlucky few students at the bottom of the list--the College randomly assigned them to one of their selections...
...told the mother there was no hope; the best prognosis they could offer was that her daughter would be able to feed herself someday. "The family were Episcopalians and engaged very seriously in prayer, as did their church and the Sunday school," he says. "Two weeks later the girl woke up, and she is now back in school. These are not kooks. They only spoke to me because their minister asked them to. The stories I have are not all religious, and they are from all different religions. It is very vast, and serious. People like to dismiss...
...Matsumoto sarin case, but dismissed him; no one was ever charged. That did not comfort Aum's nervous neighbors in Kamikuishiki. A month later they noticed that the leaves on the trees near the cult's compound had suddenly turned brown. Shortly afterward the family living nearest the compound woke up with nausea and sore eyes. There was "a horrible smell, like burning plastic," said retired farmer Norie Okamoto, who informed the police. The cultists got off with a warning, and the villagers were furious, especially when the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper disclosed that police samples of the soil around...