A follower of an anti-Semitic Christian philosophy was sentenced to life in prison for a series of bombings in the southeastern United States. Eric Rudolph, who admitted to bombing the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and several other sites, was sentenced Monday for the attacks, which killed two people and injured hundreds.
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