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...relationship between the gun industry and criminals who use its products. Manufacturers design certain guns to appeal to criminals, the plaintiffs say, like snub-nosed revolvers that can be easily hidden under a shirt. The companies then advertise to criminals with felon-friendly claims, the suit charges, like the boast that the TEC-DC9 assault weapon offers "excellent resistance to fingerprints." And the weapons are distributed to gun shops that wink as straw buyers snap them up and whisk them off to be sold out of car trunks in high-crime neighborhoods...
Perhaps no other event better symbolizes theemergence of the collegiate women's game from itsadolescence. Never again can some cocky men'sbasketball fan boast of his league of choice as ashrine to parity and competitiveness. Gone are thedays when a few female standouts from programslike Louisiana Tech, Tennessee and Stanford werethe league's lone ambassadors...
Harvard fencing can boast of a couple of All-Americans in women's captain Jill Katz--a Second Teamer--and men's captain Michael Gattnar, who earned First-Team honors after winning the IFA championship in epee, his weapon of choice...
Mosley can also boast of an impressive season, as he took his second trip to Nationals. He grappled in the 167-pound weight class with two-time national finalist Brandon Slay of Penn, and lost in one-point heartbreakers...
...Titans also boast one of California's top lefthanded starters in Cal State-Northridge transfer Benito Flores. The senior--who was junior righthander Donny Jamieson's teammate at Orange Country's El Dorado High School--sports a nifty 12-0 record...