Word: gunness
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...HAVE GUN--WILL TRAVEL...
...good guy who dressed in black, dispensing bullets, beatings and quotes from Shakespeare with equal facility. As incarnated by Richard Boone, whose dandyish mustache and amused baritone voice lent ironic counterpoint to a face that looked as if it had just lost six barroom brawls, Paladin was the hired gun as moral arbiter. He needed no supporting cast to cheer on or question his decisions; he already had the writers and directors to make this series the best in the West...
...changed all that, as has the careful provision of social services by groups like Hizballah and Hamas. If the status quo is no longer tenable, as was the case in the Palestinian territories, it's far better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than the gun. The election holds out the possibility of moderation-and also the possibility that the leaders of Hamas will come to learn what Bush seems not to understand: that freedom isn't a gift. It is an achievement...
Ernest Pelligrini, 18, of Cambridge, Mass., and two minors aged 16 were arrested that night for attempting to commit unarmed robbery. One of the minors is also charged with the possession of a BB gun, which police said was not used in the commission of the crime but was found by officers after the incident...
...full-blown addiction. Moses, 57, never touched heroin until 2001, when his wife died. But when he picked it up, he got hooked fast. "I missed my wife. I was lonely," he says. "I didn't want to live, but I didn't have the nerve to put a gun to my head...