Word: guns
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...coupe. Now ranked second in the world, the newly single Agassi has singlehandedly rejuvenated both his own sputtering career and men's tennis in general. So winning the Open title in rowdy Flushing Meadows would be fitting. To do so, though, he'll have to get by the top gun, Pete Sampras, who hasn't needed to stage a made-for-television comeback, being too busy winning everything in sight. Andre and Pete. Tennis is back...
...also condemned the actions of the military dictatorship. "Theirs is the strategy of the gun," said Aristide. "They use lies, murder and economic subversion to achieve their goals...
...POLLS ON GUN LAWS...
Rosenblatt guesses that the majority of Americans favor gun control and are ready to banish guns. But that is contrary to the evidence of some polls. A Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll that has tracked the issue since 1990 found that in June 1999, only 62% of Americans favored stricter gun laws, compared with 78% in 1990. And a Gallup poll found that the percentage of people who believe the government should ban civilian handgun possession has fallen from 41% in 1981 to 38% in 1999. Perhaps a growing number of Americans have begun to realize gun-control laws do not make...
Like all good propaganda, Horowitz's piece, titled "Guns don't kill black people, other blacks do," started plausibly, with a critique of the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawsuit against gun manufacturers. Why, he asked, should gun companies, instead of the killers, be held accountable for the appalling rate of black-on-black homicide? But that pointed query was merely a launching point for Horowitz's real message: a blanket assault on the alleged moral failures of African Americans so strident and accusatory that it made the antiblack rantings of Dinesh D'Souza seem like models of fair-minded social analysis...