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...handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we've been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it's got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven't worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November...
...police, no questions asked, for tickets to Nuggets, Broncos and Rockies games or tickets to the Museum of Natural History. But buybacks tend to run out of steam and over budget. Minnesota's Hennepin County, which offered $50 a gun, spent more than $300,000 last year to collect 6,100 firearms. Even at that price, buybacks don't offer much incentive for criminals whose guns are more valuable as tools of the trade...
...contrast to their bottles, the Mather men also collect fish, which are housed in the common room's three tanks...
...break even, not collect revenue from parking violations," he said...
...Harvard Advocate, Fall 1993, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 1: Cinque Henderson '94 writes the magazine's "Notes from 21 South Street" on recent Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. He confesses, "...I collect Toni in every form available: pictures, posters, articles, essays. We've got signed first editions of all her novels except the expensive ones. We have her on tape--video and audio. We have copies of her only published short story, her only published poem. And we hang her all around the house." And if Cinque liked the President, the secret service would be going through his trash right...