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Unfortunately, the line between being quick and being sharp is a fine one. Knee-jerk wit beats a certain resemblance to a handgun in the possession of a child--you don't know whether it will go off, and you don't know who it may hit. Knee-jerk wit may go a long way toward explaining our reputation for arrogance. The image of the stuck in Harvard student has always bothered like too many of my colleagues to understand how we have managed to maintain this distressing image...
...individual was a passenger on the IRT subway car last December when Goetz, 37, opened fire on four teenagers he claims had hassled him and hustled him for money. A number of other passengers testified before the original grand jury, which indicted Goetz only for illegal possession of a handgun. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane ruled that Morgenthau's application for a rehearing was compelling enough to warrant asking another grand jury to consider charges of attempted murder and assault...
...Suarez legend continues to grow in Bolivia, even if many of the stories told about him are probably wildly exaggerated. He has been seen carrying a gold-plated handgun and keeps a pet leopard, said to wear a gold collar studded with diamonds, near his side at his ranch in the Beni. In interviews with journalists, Suarez has boasted that he has hired Libyan "experts" to train his security force and that his ranchland retreats are defended by missile-carrying aircraft. He also likes to buy newspaper space to lecture his countrymen on the corruption in their government...
CALLING WHAT GOETZ did illegal possession of a handgun sends a message exactly counter to Cuomo's and Koch's warnings immediately after the crime. He committed an act that could have led to the death of his aggressors, and was not indicted for it--an action that gives some credence to the charges of public racism levied almost immediately after the shooting...
...other truism that has been applied in this ethical equation two wrongs don't make is an indictment, for attempted murder and a trial of Bernhard Goetz that is a fair as possible in a city where-violence is accepted even applauded, and possession of a handgun is illegal but shooting four other people, apparently...