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...Massachusetts-New Hampshire border to take advantage of the Granite State’s lax firing range laws (which allow anyone to fire weapons on the range without background checks, waiting periods or even basic sobriety tests) and to enjoy a peaceful (and early) Sunday morning shooting the hell out of stationary targets...
...scared for me, I was scared for my potential descendants that might never be and I was scared for every other soul at that range who might soon cease to exist. I looked once more at Volokh, who gave me a friendly look of “hurry the hell up.” So, I turned back to the target, cut my mini-drama short and grasped for the trigger. BANG! My hand jumped. My heart raced. The bullet sailed about two feet over the upper left corner of the target. I had fired my first shot...
...guard down, as I suppose you need to do to fall in love. So we see Tom visiting his parent's grave and talking to them, and when Lily arrives in California for a visit he simply admits, "I'm so happy I could cry right now. Hell... I probably...
...individual biathlon disciplines, 12.5-km pursuit, 10-km sprint and 20 km, he anchored the men's 4x7.5-km relay for Norway's first-ever gold in that event. Biathlon, a combination of cross-country skiing and target shooting, says biathlete Frode Andresen, "is the two disciplines that meet in hell, because it is at one extreme mental and at the other extreme physical." Only two other athletes, both speed skaters, have won four gold medals at one Winter Olympics. American Erik Heiden took five in 1980 and Russia's Lydia Skoblikova won four in 1964. After the relay Bjorndalen...
...dark, even brutal, irony engendered by the fact that Aaliyah plays the title role: the queen of the damned. If, a la Coleridge, we suspend our disbelief a moment (as viewers of Queen must do) and assume the existence of those quaintly dichotomous extra-somatic resting-places Heaven and Hell, then it seems that only the iciest of souls, the most immune to charm, grace and beauty, could imagine Aaliyah anywhere but in the former. And yet her parting shot to her fans, to viewers of The Queen of the Damned is as a dark vampire queen?...