The cook had been to the ranch as often as Pereda, who had always said that the country was no place for a man like him, a cultivated family man, who wanted to make sure that his children got a good education.

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Ruslan Tsarni, a Maryland man who said he was an uncle of the suspects, had no sympathy for them and no regret that his elder nephew was killed.

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Meanwhile, doctors in northern Virginia said that preliminary tests had found no anthrax in a man who presented himself to a hospital last night saying he had connections with AMI.

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