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However, the ability of manufacturers to flood markets represents a failure of law rather than a breakdown of individual morality in the private sector. If excess production of guns creates a clear public hazard, then the government has the responsibility to impose production ceilings on manufacturers and to watch more closely the transactions of legally licensed distributors and retailers...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Make Laws, Not Lawsuits | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...through hordes of future yuppies and sycophantic adults, all so anxious to see him at the front of the room that they failed to notice his presence as he excused himself at their sides. There could be no parting of the waters where there had already been a flood...

Author: By Brooke M. Lampley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RICHARD MEIER A MODERN ARCHITECT | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

Adams House restricts weekday lunch to its residents, although each is allowed up to two guests. Non-residents, however, flood the dining hall daily, "adopting" hosts as they wait in the long line...

Author: By Erin D. Leib, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Residents Protest Interhouse | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...knew that this would be his habit. In June 1997 the issue was disaster relief. Republicans loaded the bill with blatantly partisan riders, assuming Clinton wouldn't dare veto it. The President did, within minutes of its landing on his desk, and the Republicans were blamed for flood victims' getting stranded. A coup ensued, but Gingrich prevailed, primarily because there was no obvious candidate to replace him. His response: a 12-point memo on the lessons to be learned from the disaster-relief disaster. Lesson One: "In dealing with Clinton, you must never put yourself in a position where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Of The House Of Newt | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...abandon, even going as far as ripping the limbs from an innocent doll while belting out the lyrics to the song "Little Girls": "Little cheeks, little teeth/Everything around me is little/If I wring little necks/Surely I will get an acquittal...Some night I'll straighten their curls/ Send a flood, send the flu/Anything that, you can do, to little girls...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IT'S THE HARD KNOCK LIFE | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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