Word: gunness
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...with Yale to compete against Oxford and Cambridge. Last Saturday, the two teams took the track one more time—this time meeting at the Crimson’s McCurdy Track—as Ivy League rivals.“I have always believed that when the gun goes off that’s when the competition really begins,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “When you cross the line, camaraderie and respect for your opponent is really crucial. I think it’s a great experience for our student-athletes to join...
Monday April 20 marks 10 years since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold permanently etched the words Columbine High School into this nation's collective memory. What happened that day in 1999 also seemed to wake America up to the reality that it had become a nation of gun owners - and too often a nation of shooters...
...carnage in Littleton, Colorado - 12 classmates and a teacher before the killers offed themselves - and the ease with which the teenagers acquired their weapons (two sawed-off shotguns, a 9-mm semiautomatic carbine and a TEC-9 handgun) seemed to usher in a new era of, well if not gun control, then at least gun awareness. (See pictures of Columbine 10 years later...
Back in 1973, National Lampoon ran a satirical cover image of a very cute, very worried-looking puppy with a gun pointed at its head. The headline read "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog" - motivation by emotional blackmail, taken to its absurdist extreme...
...will be messy, it will be inefficient, and, for many greens, it will be maddening, but Congress is the right place to hash out our response to global warming. The very real and very scary threat of a warming world - which might as well be a gun pointed at our collective head - will have to be enough to motivate them...