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...that." The smooth turnover of the clocks on Jan. 1, 2000, was a blow to many conspiracy-minded groups, which had predicted global chaos. "After Y2K," says Potok, "there were a lot of angry letters in the extremist publications saying, 'You've made fools of us--we have a basement full of supplies and nothing to use them for.'" But if the militias are fading, some of their paranoid fervor lives on. Take John Trochmann, who still runs the Militia of Montana. "If they kill McVeigh, they'll be destroying more evidence that points to the government," he says...
...Tuesday afternoon, the sit-in ended as members of PSLM left Mass. Hall claiming victory and vowing to keep up the fight for a living wage. Within a matter of hours, all but two of the tents had been taken down and unclaimed gear had been stowed in a basement closet in nearby Matthews Hall...
...Even beyond the horrifying flaws in the postal service?s long-term budgetary planning, I have to question the methodology by which they came up with the latest increases. I can just see the brainstorming process now, somewhere in a dank basement office on Capitol Hill: "Hey, I have an idea! Maybe no one will notice if we raise the rates on postcard stamps!" Yeah, that?s a great idea. Because who sends postcards? Two demographic groups who are going to feel the pinch more than anyone: Old people - "What do you mean, you want 22 cents to send this...
...bored, staying at home playing mah-jongg with other second wives and banking the $2,000 a month he gives her. "He is old, no energy," she says. "Like my grandfather." Hedging her bets, three times a week she slips on a miniskirt and heads out to the basement Moonlight Club, looking for someone a little younger and a lot richer. And of course, he's got to come from Hong Kong...
...first glance, the stuffy basement room in the Maricopa County courthouse seems unremarkable: a black-robed figure looming over the dais; lawyers and sheriff's deputies at the ready; a line of 72 convicted felons up for sentencing. First comes the lanky forklift driver caught with crystal meth. Then the surly mechanic, father of three, busted for cocaine. And the pale 19-year-old with shorn red hair, on probation for using marijuana, who has failed his latest drug test. He shuffles his feet as his mother looks on, wipes away a tear and mumbles, "I messed...