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...Democrats' skittishness on gun control also dates back to their traumatic experience in the 2000 election. To settle the score after the Clinton Administration muscled through the most significant new gun restrictions in nearly 30 years--the 1993 Brady Law requiring background checks for gun buyers and a ban on assault weapons--the gun lobby launched a $13 million attack. Its get-out-the-vote drives, political contributions and advertising helped defeat Al Gore in such crucial places as Arkansas, West Virginia and even Tennessee, his home state...
...however, caution that the motive for the murder remains unclear. As the outspoken head of a Democratic Party of Japan anti-corruption committee known as the "G-Man Squad," Ishii fashioned himself as Japan's Eliot Ness. Ironically, he may have been best known for his 2000 campaign to ban the ultraviolent Japanese teen movie Battle Royale. Murder, it seems, doesn't stop at the screen...
Last night’s Undergraduate Council meeting featured an hour-long question-and-answer session with Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, as well as the approval of two pieces of legislation—including one protesting this year’s keg ban at the Harvard-Yale game...
...second was a resolution, sponsored by Michael R. Blickstead ’05, endorsing the Oct. 26 House Committee petition submitted to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 protesting the ban on kegs at tailgates on the weekend of the Harvard-Yale game...
...believe the bill will create solidarity with the HoCo’s and the entire student body. It shows that the student body has serious and legitimate concern about the keg ban,” Blickstead said. “If we don’t support this, then who are we representing...