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Timothy McVeigh will make a statement at his formal sentencing tomorrow in Judge Matsch's Denver courtroom -- and it's likely to contain few kind words for Stephen Jones, who McVeigh wants the court to yank from his case. "He screwed up badly but I'm not bitter," McVeigh told the Buffalo News Tuesday. "I only want him off my appeal...
...They had made it a matter of honor that when asking citizens to tighten their belts, accept welfare reform or cut entitlements like Social Security, Congress had to make some sacrifices as well. The rebellion forced Gingrich to hold a series of meetings in mid-March to try to yank the rebels back in line. "We were all told we were immature and we needed to behave like a majority, not like children," says...
...evil. And the ever alert Salvador Dali managed to include a number of proto-Pop American images in his pictures when working in the U.S. Painted just after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his Melancholy Atomic and Uranic Idyll, 1945, has a bomber in it as well as the first Yank baseball player to turn up in a Surrealist picture...
...front of the goal, and soon after, Miller's low shot was blocked by Dion and her rebound was just deflected away from an open net by a UMass player. In the 68th minute, Stauffer missed soccer's equivalent of a layup as she raced clear only to yank the ball wide of the goal...
Inspired by the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who did the Beatles' Let It Be the following year), Circus is a happy yank back to the days when the princes of rock's second generation could still glory in their good fortune. Do we look goofy in our sad-clown makeup (Bill Wyman) and peekaboo cowgirl togs (Roger Daltrey)? Well, we have fun looking goofy and playing loud music...