Word: gunness
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...leaving a wallet on the street and waiting for someone to pick it up and try to keep the money. "What good is having a friend with super strength if you can't even find some bullies to beat up," moans Louis. Soon Andy also acquires an absurd-looking gun that completely atomizes anything he points it at. Finding his gun begins Andy's maturation, forcing him to make life or death decisions. In the cloudy world of Clowes, though, such choices are wholly of Andy's own making and highly debatable. Transcending the escapist fodder of its iconography...
...movie, a character named Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) intrepidly investigates the work of eccentric orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper) for a New Yorker article and a book. She also snorts psychotropic orchid extracts, brandishes—and fires—a gun and poses nude for a website while engaged in an affair with Laroche...
...Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.—to make sure the bill never does. In turn, these men, responsible for bringing the bill to a vote, say they will do so only if the President asks them to. And with the NRA’s gun to his head, he will not be asking anytime soon...
Frist, who had little experience moving legislation before he took the top job, has been unable to push a budget or energy bill through the Senate. Democrats forced him to back off a bill shielding gun manufacturers from liability in lawsuits. And Frist last month had to pull from the floor a bill popular with business to limit class actions because of a flurry of Democratic amendments. The defeat of the gay-marriage amendment--which couldn't muster even a majority, much less the two-thirds needed--was another embarrassment. Frist press secretary Nick Smith blames the legislative failures...
...country in question. Howmaira Zamir, in charge of registration at Eid Mosque, puts the task ahead in stark terms: "This is a battle for the future. And we must fight." For Karzai, the fight is against regional warlords. Optimists contend that political competition has replaced the way of the gun. "[It's] democracy in action," gushes one Western diplomat. But outside Kabul, the Taliban is still deadly and powerful. Twelve election workers have been killed to date, including two murdered by gunmen in Taliban-laden Uruzgan province late last week. Meanwhile, Karzai's national security forces are still too small...