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...flash, Ellison whipped his gun out of its holster with his free right arm and pointed the sidearm directly at the interloper’s head...
Ellison has since traded his gun for a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard and a passion for learning and teaching...
...Smoking Gun, a Web site that posts legal documents online, reported that Jean and his business associates received $410,000 in payments from Yéle Haiti from 2005 to 2007. According to Yéle Haiti's tax returns, the charity paid out $31,200 in rent to Platinum Sound, a recording studio co-owned by Jean; $100,000 for the "musical performance services of Wyclef Jean at a benefit concert;" and $250,000 to Telemax, S.A., "a for-profit Haiti company in which Jean and Duplessis were said to 'own a controlling interest...
...sure, there are unforgettable moments of poignancy in the film that punctuate its bathos. The opening sequence of Ally’s mother’s murder is particularly disturbing and salient; the camera directly looks into the barrel of the murderer’s gun, thereby allowing the spectator to vicariously anticipate the fatal shot. It is terrifying and horrific, ergo a clever and memorable way for Coulter to begin the film. Another heartbreaking shot is the pan across Lauren’s half-severed hair at a birthday party, the consequence of a pernicious schoolgirl prank. This trauma...
Starbucks, which has been the target of similar pro-gun displays in other states, finds itself caught in the middle. The company issued a statement saying that "the political, policy and legal debates around these issues belong in the legislatures and courts, not in our stores." Gun opponents want Starbucks to exercise its legal authority to ban gun displays on its property, as Peet's Coffee & Tea and California Pizza Kitchen have done. "Guns are not protest signs," says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. But because California law prohibits openly carried guns from being...