Word: guns
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...Friedman, in his rambling April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives?...
...said Edward H. Thai ’07, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association. In the days since last Monday’s shooting, groups have emerged on Facebook with titles such as “Guns Don’t Kill People, Asian Kids at VT do...” and “Asian dude + a gun = 33 killed and I’m pissed,” prompting concerned discussion on the AAA’s e-mail list. “Some people were trying...
...second to leave Providence at .500 for the weekend. Harvard will now have to hope that Brown (14-17, 9-5 Ivy) falters during the last two weeks of league play. “We came in wanting to win three of four, obviously, because Brown is a big gun,” said junior third baseman Steffan Wilson. “After we split [Saturday] we needed to come out and win the first game, but we came up a little short. That was hanging over our heads in the second game.”HARVARD 9, BROWN...
...Here's just the movie for the weekend after the Va. Tech killings: a gun-love comedy about a rural town where, by the end, nearly everyone has been mowed down in a tsunami of bullets. Watching Hot Fuzz at a big screening Thursday night, I laughed along with the audibly delighted crowd of film-industry folk. But I couldn't help wondering whether general audiences would find a bloodbath cop-movie parody an appropriate mechanism of escape from the recent headlines...
...baddies. Sure, the movie climaxes in a bloodbath, with all the perps get blown up, run over or impaled. But, and I'm not giving too much away, most of them miraculously - or, rather, very Englishly - survive. After all, in dear old Blighty, people don't die of gun violence...