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...Stand his or her ground"? "Meet force with force"? Wow. It's as if the text of a real bill somehow got transposed with dialogue from a 1970s Dirty Harry paean to vigilantism. I can picture a stressed-out Tampa soccer mom drawing a bead on an approaching panhandler and shrieking, "Go ahead, make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoot First, Regret Legislation Later | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...call for action: The same song that tells “what they’ve won by” exhorts, “Show your tusks!,” calling listeners to action by adding that the only alternative would be to “watch the heat bead upon the body of a world that you have grown your skin...

Author: By Jim. L. Fingal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: Tiny Hawks | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...could have used one or two [more] makes from him,” Sullivan said. “Yale had a bead on him, more so than other teams we’ve played recently...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Comes Up One Possession Short Against Yale | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...really had a bead on [Forte],” Sullivan said. “That matchup worked out terrifically...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Notches Clutch Ivy Road Win | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...Forte] can take the game over off the dribble, but Jason [Norman] did a fabulous job—not just a great job, but a fabulous job—getting into him,” Sullivan said. “[He] really had a bead on him, and he really had his footwork down...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Norman Control Brown's Star Guard | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

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