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Another response to the tragedy: the House of Commons voted in October to tighten Britain's already strict gun laws, banning all handguns larger than .22 cal. Prince Philip, who opposes the law, set off a national furor last week when he complained, "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean are you going to ban cricket bats?" The Prince has since apologized...
...particularly encourage upperclass students, who traditionally have the lowest turnout, to vote. They have lived under the council longer and can bring to their votes more experience in judging which programs are most likely to work. In the furor of the campaign itself, it is easy to forget that if this year is like last, the votes being fought for represent less than one-quarter of the student body. Spending the five minutes necessary to register their opinions will force students to make a personal investment in the outcome of the election. That is the first and most fundamental step...
...Starr's investigation continues, it seems worth remembering that it was Clinton who called for the appointment of an independent counsel in January 1994, in the midst of a furor over the removal of files from Vince Foster's office. The President's thinking was that by removing Whitewater from the political arena and putting it into the hands of an independent counsel, he would buy time for his legislative agenda and eliminate the burgeoning scandal as an issue in the midterm congressional elections and, if necessary, in his own re-election campaign...
Never mind the furor over the murder of rap star Tupac Shakur and the recriminations that are sure to erupt over the civil trial of a certain ex-football player. The hottest topic in black America, bar none, is whether the CIA was responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from...
...sense, the furor was an artificial one. Embryos of this sort are routinely destroyed in small batches every week, as they have been since the 1980s. The term embryo, moreover, carries an emotional charge that may be misleading. These entities consist of a handful of cells, the very earliest stages of the nine-month process that turns a fertilized egg into a full-term baby. They were frozen only a few days at most after conception; they would not even merit the designation fetus until after three months in the womb. "You can't regard these as little people," says...