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...weaponry to 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...
...Lipsi, 250 km east of Athens. The professor's real name is believed to be Alexandros Giotopolous. The authorities were led to him by 17 November terrorists who confessed in return for lighter sentences. Police also confirmed that a gun confiscated from a 17 November safe house was the Colt .45 revolver used to kill a British diplomat in June 2000. MEANWHILE Good Vibrations For Babar Fans Convinced of elephantine intelligence, scientists in Namibia have discovered that - despite their big ears - elephants may talk and listen to each other with their feet. Ground tremors travel up to six km further...
...Formula One championship, a quiet 32-year-old Irishman is riding roughshod over British Isles flat racing. Aidan O'Brien's horses have such a record of winning big races that other trainers are now almost reluctant to put their charges up against them. When O'Brien entered his colt Hawk Wing in the prestigious Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, England, a week ago, with stablemate Sholokhov as his pacemaker, they faced only three other horses. Hawk Wing and Sholokhov duly romped home. That success came only weeks after one of O'Brien's outstanding colts, High Chaparral...
Even though Drew’s car-of-choice is the oft-mentioned on-air Colt Vista, as a Harvard freshman there is little time for driving. He says that his father and uncle have been good mentors: “[my uncles are] trained in the art of BS. They always make their answers sound confident but the answers are only right 60-70% of the time.” From the garage to the Yard, Drew is cruising...
...Jewish joke goes, "How do you make a Romanian omelet? First, steal two eggs." Glass's programs sound as if their creator began by stealing a microphone. He finds--uncovers--drama and humor in the most pedestrian of places. O thou woods colt of Lord Buckley, out of Diane Arbus. Go thou and conquer...