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...have lately seen, a mere bruise will outshine several deaths, if it springs from a strange enough plot, Wounded Knee II continues to dominate the headlines, even after an intervening killer coldsnap, paralyzing blizzard, and deadly earthquake have ceased to be interesting...
Though scarcely visible in the fight for the crime bill, the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban, Clinton got the message last week. The President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General...
...think that warming has to do with how manis treating the Earth," Bourne said. "With thefloods in the Midwest, the blizzard last year, theheat in the South, something is definitelystrange...
...Hell. The set was recorded in Houston in late 1991, and by the high standards of Kinison's albums Louder Than Hell and Have You Seen Me Lately?, it's a little lazy -- and, of course, morally reprehensible. But Live from Hell is still a blast from below, a blizzard of belligerence against underdogs (gay men, the homeless) and a parade of celebs whose exploits Kinison considers more lurid than his. Rick James? Axl Rose? "These guys make me look like Pat F-----' Sajak...
...Administration hopes its blizzard of foreign-policy speeches will help direct public attention away from the bloodshed in Somalia and Bosnia toward its accomplishments in other regions -- propping up Boris Yeltsin, for example. Top officials worry, as Lake says, that "we have come into the new era with relatively few ways to convince a skeptical public that engagement abroad is a worthwhile investment." But there is no sidestepping the hard cases. If Washington is to remain a superpower, the public will have to bear not only comparatively light burdens like democratic "enlargement" but onerous ones like Somalia and Bosnia...