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...persuade” Harvard to institute a living wage. Nor do we believe that coercion is simply a means of making a desired outcome preferable to other alternatives. These definitions clearly include many forms of bargaining. Suppose I want my neighbor’s wallet. If I hold a gun to his head and demand that he hand it over, I am making my desired outcome (I get his wallet, he lives) preferable to the alternative (I kill him). If I instead offer him a million dollars for his wallet, I am making my desired outcome (I get his wallet...
...Texas Rangers attempt to sign Doc Gooden and Daryl Strawberry. Their parole officers refuse, so the Rangers go on to inquire about former Yankee pitcher Steve Howe, who was banned from baseball on many occasions in the early 90s for cocaine use and was once found carrying a gun onto an airplane. Howe though, decides not to come out of retirement. To his disappointment, GM John Hart also discovers that one-time Tampa Bay Devil Rays super-prospect Toe Nash will not be available for this season, as he awaits his trial for theft and the rape...
...superego you shouldn't have to look too far to find a subversive underlying id-the perfect description of Jack Neo, an actor, writer and director who doesn't keep much of anything inside. Ask him about any topic-sex, money, Big Brother-and he'll unleash his Gatling gun laugh. And that's what Singaporeans adore about Neo: the fact that he's willing to be their megaphone on the issues of daily life in jokes, on his popular TV shows and in hit films...
FRANCE Death on His Mind When Richard Durn used a gun to threaten a psychiatrist in 1998, no action was taken. Even though the school monitor had a history of mental illness, his membership in a shooting club was enough to qualify him to own handguns. At the end of a municipal council meeting in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week, Durn pulled out two 9-mm pistols and calmly shot dead eight members of the council and wounded 19 other people. As he was wrestled to the ground, he shouted "Kill me! Kill me!" The following...
...down-home dishes as BBQ pork and giant onion rings, beer and seemingly lax security. Jim Brady, Sarah Brady's husband, sat out in the audience in his wheelchair, eating ribs. Brady had been incapacitated in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. Following that, Sarah became a leading gun-control advocate...