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...Helsinki After Killings, a Crackdown In the wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...should know. Zucker virtually invented the spoof film with his '80s comedies Airplane! and The Naked Gun, and with Scary Movie 3 and 4, he has continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life...
...forth, the complaint reads. "The detective was concerned that the baby would not be able to breathe. Using force, he and another officer were able to get the child away from the defendant." At that point, police say, Griffin reached for her purse, and police used a Taser gun and a pepper-spray-like weapon to subdue...
...Aside from a glut of straight up banal sentences - "Biddinger's great talent, Billy knew, was that at any sudden moment he could drop his easy friendliness, let his dark eyes narrow into two slits like gun holes, and turn mean." (Slits like gun holes?) - one of Blum's three main characters, D.W. Griffith, doesn't even really belong in the book. Despite Blum's best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other...
...Mortgage Association does. This approach, they argue, would not cost as much, and would require Wall Street to pay the cost of its mistakes, through insurance premiums. "The main thing is to protect the taxpayer," said Georgia Republican Phil Gingrey. "We don't really feel like there's a gun held to our head to get this accomplished by a drop dead time...