Word: guns
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...As long as the G.O.P. panders to the fanatics in the gun lobby, Americans will have to endure a senseless massacre every few months. Check your calendar for the next...
...Condor, the rest from the Robert Ludlum oeuvre. And the issue of whether a genocidal dictator will be killed doesn't have much emotional weight. Nor does the moral question--Can a person do good by killing a bad man?--mean a lot when a star is pointing a gun at a defenseless supporting player...
Budnitz is at her best when dwelling in this fantastic reality, but only when her issues stick to the very personal. “Preparedness” tells the absurd story of a gun-totin’ American president who issues a false alarm of mutual assured destruction (MAD) and is horrified to see citizens doing anything but taking cover, instead fulfilling their long-latent fantasies. The story catalogs beautiful glimpses of life in an Edenic state of anticipated death, recurring with each subsequent government MAD “fire drill.” But the scenes of the president...
...make-believe re-election of deeply corrupt leaders, average citizens courageously took to the streets, demanded honest government and honest elections, and led a democratic revolution. Neither this nor the first flowering of democracy in the Middle East has been foisted upon reluctant people by the barrel of a gun; rather, it reflects the action of individuals who demanded a say in their government. Before our faith in the common man, the ability of average people, succumbs to cultured intellectual cynicism or sophisticated anti-democratic snobbery, we should pause to appreciate the beauty and promise of these reforms. The unprecedented...
It’s all gun smoke and bravado from Shawn Haviland, Harvard’s young freshman hurler, who owns a 4-1 record in five collegiate starts...