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...culture. I learned to shoot, haunted gun shows and went so far as to get myself a gun dealer's license just to see how easily such licenses could be obtained. The deeper I ventured into the culture, the more it seemed to me that the nation had bent over backward to ensure a brisk flow of guns to felons, wife killers and assorted other lunatics...
...words that don't sound like much to get excited about. They even reflect reality. Nevertheless, the impact is certain to be profound. In any other part of the world, the new phrasing could be swept aside as a niggling shift in semantics. But for two belligerents, each bent on prevailing, and for a U.S. government caught in the middle, Lee's words had the potential of sparking a diplomatic crisis--or worse. Nor is it now merely an academic exercise for Americans to ask, Would we go to war for Taiwan...
Kennedy could be affable and accessible, then capricious and enraged--all before lunch. "He was a little insensitive," says a former staff member. "It was his signature project, so he reserved the right to change anything around at the last minute." Bent on proving himself a serious person, he failed to take advice from more seasoned magazine people. "Sometimes he wouldn't see things that had the potential to make a very bad article." The product suffered, turnover was high, and ultimately the magazine ran into financial trouble...
...decision ended an unusual exception to University policy. Harvard does not ordinarily host outside sites, but bent the rules to accommodate the computer security site, which the University said was serving a public good...
...decision ended an unusual exception to University policy. Harvard does not ordinarily host outside sites, but bent the rules to accommodate the computer security site, which the University said was serving a public good...