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...look cool--remember Yeltsin on a tank? But at a recent reception in a supporter's house in Atlanta, the strategy backfired on campaigning Republican Representative BOB BARR of Georgia. A National Rifle Association board member and gun-safety advocate, Barr was inspecting a 1908-model Colt .38-cal. pistol with his friend, lobbyist Bruce Widener, when the weapon discharged. Nobody was hurt, but Representative John Linder, Barr's opponent in the Republican primary for the state's Seventh District, found plenty of ammunition. At his next appearance with Barr, he joked, "I'm going to wear a bulletproof vest...
That impulse to hope for a good ending is one Cal Thomas, the conservative columnist, sees even in the disciples' questions for Jesus. He cites Bible passages in which the Apostles press Jesus for clues about how the future unfolds. "This is intellectual comfort food, the whole Left Behind phenomenon, because it says to people, in a popularized way, it's all going to pan out in the end," he says. "It assures them, in the midst of a general cultural breakdown and a time of growing danger, that God is going to redeem the time." Evangelicals who had felt...
...swiped at cops with knives, fists and feet, according to court documents. In between bookings, he worked as a dishwasher or in the laundry of Chicago hotels and restaurants. In October 1991, after he and his family had moved to South Florida, he was arrested for firing his .38-cal. revolver at another driver during a road-rage incident in Sunrise, Fla. "He was a scary, scary guy with a Yankees cap covering his eyebrows," remembers the other driver, Victor Lento...
...Idan's photo and sends out energy to protect him. She draws Sanskrit symbols in the air and puts out telepathic lines to her son. Then she knows he's all right. But the reiki alone doesn't work for her. On her hip, she carries a small .22-cal. Beretta pistol in a black holster. There's a spare clip of tiny bronze bullets with copper tips in her handbag...
...Crimson also allowed the Bears to have free-position opportunities, but the persistent defense of Gotha and senior Erin Kutner—along with the great stops of sophomore goalkeeper Laura Mancini—extinguished Cal-Berkeley’s scoring chances...