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...about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...
...Catherine Stock (Morrow; $15). The pick of a good year: the author, a fine watercolor artist, follows a little Zimbabwean girl as she wakes up at dawn and walks miles through forests and grasslands to her school. Small children can have fun finding Manyoni's tiny figure in a grove of fig trees or waist-deep in riverside grass; older kids can learn to spot the civet cat, the yellow hornbill and the impalas, kudus and wildebeests she passes. The exceptional illustrations treat the vast African landscape with awe and love. Beautifully redrawn cave paintings, based on work by prehistoric...
...Riot Grrrl" think-piece/manifesto I've seen, plus interviews with Moonshake, Sugar, Tsunami, Nation of Ulysses, Huggy Bear, several unheard-of British bands, and that guy who used to sing for the Pixies. Tower and Newbury Comics stock it, or send f3.90 to Karren Ablaze! at 17 Wetherby Grove, Leeds LS4 2JH, England...
...generational wheel has turned. In 1990 young Reuben married Marna, a white Lutheran from rural Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. Although both a rabbi and a minister officiated, none of Marna's relatives, except her mother, attended the wedding. Her father fumed, "I can't believe you expect me to accept a black person, and a Jewish one at that!" But with the birth last year of towheaded Aaron, Marna's family softened considerably...
...Loaf was coaching kids' baseball in Connecticut. Meanwhile, Steinman worked on several off- Broadway musicals and created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel...