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...month after the murder of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten and tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998, the orgy of media coverage and national soul searching over this horrific hate crime was beginning to die down. But just then the beleaguered town of 27,000 got another influx of visitors. They were actors from New York City who had cast themselves in new roles--as reporters. With tape recorders in hand (and working in pairs at first, in case there was any trouble), they fanned out across the community to interview people affected...
...play and documentary that is about to open in New York City after an acclaimed run in Denver. There, with many Laramie residents who are portrayed in the work sitting in the audience, the show drew standing ovations. "It brought a whole new focus on events," says Casper, Wyo., Star-Tribune reporter Tiffany Edwards, who choked back tears on opening night in Denver. "That's the difference between theater and journalism...
...Park is, it's hard to imagine how Native Americans and early settlers ever survived in the rugged terrain around it. That's the mystery visitors are invited to solve during Rhodes Goes West, a week-long adventure held at the Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition in Dubois, Wyo., the first in which the center and RHODES COLLEGE, in Memphis, Tenn., have been co-hosts...
...event's keynote speaker, former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyo.), who is also director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was especially fervent in his call for Republicans to forget their differences in order to take back the White House...
SENTENCED. AARON MCKINNEY, 22, high school dropout; to two consecutive life sentences without parole; for the 1998 murder, kidnapping and robbery of gay college student Matthew Shepard; in Laramie, Wyo. Matthew's parents--who interceded as the jury began to deliberate--spared him the death penalty in exchange for his promise never to appeal...