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...from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before he was stopped. But even her proposal would permit clips of 10 cartridges or less. Would a measure so limited have mattered in last week's attack? Only to the last few people...
...this year, the team is shooting at a horrendous 36.5 percent clip, while allowing opponents a 45.9 percentage. Could this have something to do with the team's newly installed full-court press, which caused only 16 turnovers, versus 23 for the Crimson...
Certainly the network TV system is rigged heavily against fair use. For one thing, the insurance companies that provide the obligatory "errors and omissions" insurance for TV productions demand that each clip come with a permission slip from its copyright owner. (Imagine if a book critic had to get Rush Limbaugh's permission to quote his prose in a review, and maybe pay him for the privilege; that's precisely the situation in TV.) Furthermore, television "signal piracy" -- that is, merely taping and then broadcasting 10 seconds of Barbara Walters in order to critique her performance -- is a federal crime...
Perspective, November 1993, Vol. 10, No. 8: On page 4, a clip in the "Salmagundi" section discusses the case of Woburn Vending's sexist pinball game, "Machine: Bride of Pinbot." The editors wonder, "...what other types of conduct Woburn Vending would justify based on its profit potential. 'Machine: Club of the Sealbot,' anyone?" Of course, Perspective would be even more horrified by Machine: Final Club of the Cool People...
HEADQUARTERED IN A SPRAWLING, 1950s-era complex just outside Beijing, the Shougang steel company is a symbol of China's economic prowess -- and its problems. Earlier this year, when credit was easy and the economy was steaming ahead at a 17% annual clip, the state-owned conglomerate and its 270,000 employees could hardly keep pace with consumer demand. Profits soared. Then came the credit crunch orchestrated by economic czar Zhu Rongji, and Shougang felt the sting at once. Customers slashed their orders, and soon Shougang could not pay its bills. The company last month was forced to take...