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Robert Segal, CHICAGO...
...March 9, in a case called Parker v. District of Columbia, the federal appeals court in Washington struck down the city's ban on private handgun possession at home, one of the most extreme gun-control laws in the country ever since it was passed in 1976. Only Chicago and a few other Illinois communities have similarly sweeping handgun bans on the books; no state has followed Washington's lead. Gun-rights advocates believe that if the Supreme Court affirms the decision by June 2008, Democrats will be forced to choose between supporting an unpopular handgun ban and conceding that...
...pushy as my male friends, who figured out the right things to do to get tenure at certain places. They would...go to dinner parties and schmooze...suck up to the right people. And I never really did that.”During graduate school at the University of Chicago, Goldin worked with renowned economists such as Nobel laureate Gary Becker, who, she says, “turned light bulbs on in my head that I didn’t know existed.”“Claudia was a very good student, considered one of our top students...
...season, Murphy suggested to Farbotko he had a shot at more than just Crimson football, Fitzgerald simply said “why not?”And some scouts around the country seem to be thinking this guy could be a diamond in the ruff. Both NFL.com and the Chicago Bears website are among the believers. Farbotko boasts a 4.81 40-yard dash, 10’3 broad jump, a 36.5-inch vertical jump, a short shuttle in 4.43, and a three-cone drill time of 7.20. Yet the site also lists Princeton quarterback Jeff Terrell—who will...
...useful for collecting not only money but also e-mail addresses with which she might blunt the advantage that Obama has on the Internet. Having raised her money largely on the coasts until now, Clinton is going inland. Invitations just went out for a May 7 fund-raiser in Chicago, which is her hometown - and Obama's political turf...