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Critics of the air-marshal program cite the shooting as evidence that the agents should not be armed in the first place. "The idea that putting a gun on an airplane makes the public safer--that simply isn't true," says Kristen Rand, legislative director of the Violence Policy Center, a nonprofit gun-control group. An investigation is being conducted by the Miami-Dade police. But right now, the one person taking blame is Alpizar's wife. "He didn't want to get on the plane," passengers heard Buechner say after the shots were fired. "My husband is dead...
...bottom income and education brackets.It would be ridiculous to join a military you don’t agree with because you think it needs more rich people. The poor are overrepresented among prison inmates, but you don’t hear anybody suggesting that every liberal grab a gun and off a cop. On the other hand, I understand the argument that liberals should temper their criticism of the military because of the difficult circumstances and decisions that lead so many soldiers to military service. Liberals should be sensitive to the difficulties faced by many soldiers. But the question...
...City. Even as the town's art scene revives, artists run into expectations that they'll play a role in fighting Israel. For decades, Palestinian art has been highly political, with creative activists often prominent in the Palestine Liberation Organization; artists spoke of "the poetry of the gun." For many ordinary Palestinians, disillusionment with political corruption and grand slogans has led to a desire for leaders who want merely to secure a better economic future. Artists similarly discontented with politics are turning to more personal themes. "The old period of nationalist art was a big lie," says Khalid Hijazi...
...Republican-financed focus group, showing more groundwork needs to be laid. The official White House stance is that Bush has not decided whether to pursue the idea next year, but aides say they doubt they could attract Democratic support in a midterm-election year. And the G.O.P. is gun-shy after the Social Security debacle. "No one wants to put something out there that's not going to go anywhere," a White House official said. But House Republicans are still likely to pass a simplification measure by April 15 so they can bash the IRS on the campaign trail...
PLEADED GUILTY. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 63, eight-term Congressman from California; to accepting $2.4 million in bribes, mostly from military contractors, that included a Rolls-Royce, an antique French commode and mortgage payments; in San Diego. The former Top Gun instructor and tough-on-crime Republican, who for months insisted he was innocent--and now faces up to 10 years in prison--stunned even jaded Beltway insiders with his brazenness. In a tearful confession, he said, "I learned in Vietnam that the true measure of a man is how he responds to adversity. I cannot undo what I have done...