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...leaving a wallet on the street and waiting for someone to pick it up and try to keep the money. "What good is having a friend with super strength if you can't even find some bullies to beat up," moans Louis. Soon Andy also acquires an absurd-looking gun that completely atomizes anything he points it at. Finding his gun begins Andy's maturation, forcing him to make life or death decisions. In the cloudy world of Clowes, though, such choices are wholly of Andy's own making and highly debatable. Transcending the escapist fodder of its iconography...
Frist, who had little experience moving legislation before he took the top job, has been unable to push a budget or energy bill through the Senate. Democrats forced him to back off a bill shielding gun manufacturers from liability in lawsuits. And Frist last month had to pull from the floor a bill popular with business to limit class actions because of a flurry of Democratic amendments. The defeat of the gay-marriage amendment--which couldn't muster even a majority, much less the two-thirds needed--was another embarrassment. Frist press secretary Nick Smith blames the legislative failures...
...country in question. Howmaira Zamir, in charge of registration at Eid Mosque, puts the task ahead in stark terms: "This is a battle for the future. And we must fight." For Karzai, the fight is against regional warlords. Optimists contend that political competition has replaced the way of the gun. "[It's] democracy in action," gushes one Western diplomat. But outside Kabul, the Taliban is still deadly and powerful. Twelve election workers have been killed to date, including two murdered by gunmen in Taliban-laden Uruzgan province late last week. Meanwhile, Karzai's national security forces are still too small...
...CAPTURED. AHMED KHALFAN GHAILANI, suspect in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; following an estimated 16-hour gun battle with Pakistan security forces; in Gujarat, Pakistan. One of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, the Tanzania-born Ghailani (whose aliases include Ahmed the Tanzanian and Foopie) evaded capture for almost six years and is believed to be the most senior al-Qaeda official caught in Pakistan since the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, last year...
Taiwan has some of the toughest gun-control laws in the world. Private ownership of firearms is largely outlawed; people convicted of illegally making, transporting or selling guns can face the death penalty. But several high-profile shootings?including a June 16 gun battle between police and suspected kidnappers in Taichung City that left two cops dead, and the March 19 assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian?have prompted a crackdown on illegal firearms. Over the past several months, more than 90 people suspected of illegal possession have been detained and more than 100 weapons seized. Lawmakers also plan...