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Just what is "reasonable" when it comes to making and selling guns? Victims' lawyers are starting to haul out some tough cases. In an Oakland, Calif., suit headed to trial soon, the family of 15-year-old Kenzo Dix says he was accidentally killed by his 14-year-old friend because the Beretta that was used still had a bullet in the chamber ready to fire when the gun's magazine was empty. The gun should have had a "loaded-chamber indicator" to make that clear, the family argues, along with "personalized gun" technology that would have prevented an unauthorized...
...German origins have suggested to some critics that early works like Girl with Roses, 1947-48, a portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, were done under the spell of the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) portraiture of the 1920s -- painters like Otto Dix or Christian Schad. Actually the basis was much earlier: Albrecht Durer, whose fixedly staring, ultradetailed watercolors set Freud's first standards about the inspection of faces and bodies...
...first 20 women whose homes or workplaces will be marked by plaques include Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the words of The Battle Hymn of the Republic; Dorothea Dix, the 19th century social reformer; and Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science movement. Even in Boston, these local heroines have been overlooked. When the trail's organizers asked schoolteachers to identify some of the chosen 20, many questionnaires were returned blank...
...accused of embezzling $4,300 in traveler's checks that was intended to aid the contras. He claimed that he financed some of his activities from the family fund, then reimbursed himself by dipping into the contra donations. North's credibility was further damaged by former NSC administrator Mary Dix, who testified that several times in 1984 and 1985 North was so hard up for money to buy lunch and gasoline that he railed at secretaries who claimed that the agency's petty-cash fund was too low to reimburse his out-of-pocket expenses. He stopped badgering, Dix said...
...returning Crimson Long Islanders didn't get much. David Kramer, from Lloyd Harbor, got a goal. Chris Garvey, from Dix Hills, got an assist. Manhasset native Tim Reilly got a separated shoulder...