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That means it will take time for the proposal to advance, and time is never on the side of gun control. While public interest can fade quickly, the determination of gun groups never flags. After the Columbine massacre, they successfully snuffed a congressional attempt to close the loophole that allows people who buy firearms at gun shows or from one another--such transactions represent 40% of all sales--to avoid the Brady background-check system. The N.R.A. also has the tenacity to wage its battles state by state. California did succeed recently in repealing the law that protected gun manufacturers...
James M. Glaser, a political science professor at Tufts, said he expects the support for Stein to fade in the final week...
...custody, John Ashcroft will likely have final say over where Muhammad and Malvo will be tried first. They can be tried more than once and sentenced to death in more than one jurisdiction, but the first trial will be the newsmaker - and career-maker - while the later trials will fade into the background. The first judgment will also be the first to be carried out; a quick death sentence would render following trials moot...
...introverted Bonds hasn't helped himself. He refuses to worship in the cathedral where baseball tries to place itself and instead continually refers to the sport as a business. And Bonds is all business. He keeps himself in superb shape and is fanatical about a healthy diet. Most players fade in their mid-30s; he has got better...
More than anything, of course, the administration wants the whole situation in North Korea to fade quietly away. It hopes we overlook the fact that when faced with a “murderous tyrant” not totally outmatched by our conventional forces, administration insistence for preemptive action dissolves into calls for deliberation and multilateralism. Bush himself has barely uttered a word on the issue, instead speaking through others and funneling questions to the State Department...