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FRANCE Death on His Mind When Richard Durn used a gun to threaten a psychiatrist in 1998, no action was taken. Even though the school monitor had a history of mental illness, his membership in a shooting club was enough to qualify him to own handguns. At the end of a municipal council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week, Durn pulled out two 9-mm pistols and calmly shot dead eight members of the council and wounded 19 other people. As he was wrestled to the ground, he shouted "Kill me! Kill me!" The following...
...many challenges, and suddenly he was way past smooth-it-over-with-a-little-piece-of-the-Great Barrier Reef. Missing its teeth, hair and pecs, the Ogakor alliance of cards crumbled, and Amber went, but only because Colby had that durn necklace on. And now we'll see how far the direct route gets the cowboy now that he's traveling it alone...
...women.) Macdonald sees it as a rite of passage, one that is often quickly discarded due to the amount of patience and work one must put into his or her pipe. It's amusingly easy, after all, to spot a novice pipe-smoker from their frustration in keeping the durn thing lit. For neophytes frustrated by packing, cleaning and storing their pipes, Leavitt and Pearce publishes a how-to pamphlet...
Sure, some days I go outside and the pungent scent of ripe cow manure assaults me. But on the whole, Minnesota smells a good bit cleaner than Boston. And gol durn it, people are friendly...
...will let you forget about your failure either. Whenever you visit your hometown, an old woman will point you out in the street and whisper to whomever walks by, "See that one? Went to the big city, up North, and won a big, fancy fellowship. And you know what? Durn fool never amounted to nuthin...