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Ugly men use them to obscure as much of their faces as possible, hoping to hide their Phantom-like visages. Women use them to augment a ponytail when doing damage control on bad hair days. Whatever the situation, there's bound to be a reason to wear a baseball cap...
Across Tremont, a man in an old-fashioned driving cap opens the back of his yellow Plymouth Voyager, takes out two large, dusty speakers, and blasts some martial music into a group of innocent bystanders. Once the crowd has time to react, a space clears around his car. Near the minivan, on a lightpost, a flyer says "parade at 2 p.m.," but it's already almost...
Peter Friedland '98 said, "Not only did nobody tell me that cap and gown fittings were required, but it wasn't until now that I had the faintest idea...
Critics of CAP laws say they are open to too much prosecutorial discretion and interfere with the way parents maintain control over their households, adding more grief, for example, after accidental fatal firings. Joe Sudbay, director of state legislation at Handgun Control Inc. in Washington, says that's nonsense: "The whole point of these laws is not to punish. The point is to prevent." Do they? According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last October, unintentional deaths dropped 23% among children younger than 15 years old in the years covered by CAP laws...
...Arkansas schoolyard deaths have given CAP laws a national push. Partly in response to the Jonesboro shootings, Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois this week will introduce federal CAP legislation. Says Durbin: "It's time for the adults who own the guns to act responsibly, to store them safely and to take responsibility for the guns in their possession...