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DIED. MARTHA SCOTT, 90, actress who originated the role of Emily in Thornton Wilder's Our Town onstage and repeated it in the 1940 film, for which she received an Oscar nomination; in Los Angeles. She also played Charlton Heston's mother in two biblical epics, The Ten Commandments...
...council’s role relative to the administration is as our lobbying group. The power of a lobbying group on any scale is that it allows those with the same underlying goals to speak with one voice. The National Rifle Association is much more powerful with Charlton Heston speaking for a million gun owners than with many individual gun owners complaining on their own, often conflicting with each other. Yet what we have now at Harvard are dozens of campus groups all pushing for divergent and often conflicting priorities, and individual students with extreme views shouting past each other...
...groups say the 9/11 terrorist attacks left more Americans wanting to protect themselves. Gun sales soared, and the Senate voted to allow pilots to carry guns in the cockpit. It's no wonder that even with the sniper at large early last week, National Rifle Association (N.R.A.) president Charlton Heston, 79, stood at a rally for Republican candidates, flintlock over his head, and challenged gun-control advocates to pry the rifle "from my cold, dead hands...
Moore, 48, made his name tracking down and confronting corporate executives--a tactic that, in his hands, looked less like investigative journalism than self-promotion and stalking. This time he quizzes Charlton Heston on the propriety of proclaiming, at an n.r.a. convention in Littleton, Colo., just 10 days after the Columbine shootings, that his gun will have to be pried "from my cold, dead hands." (At first the star is courteous, but Moore's questions provoke him to terminate the interview, leaving Moore alone --in Heston's house.) In most respects, though, the film is crisper than Moore's earlier...
Moore also looks within. In high school in Flint, Mich., he won a marksmanship award. He is an N.R.A. member who says he wanted to run against Heston for the presidency. He likes guns. He may hear echoes of his youth in the words of a Michigan militia member: "It's an American responsibility to be armed. If you're not armed, you're not responsible." The director is a little spooked by James Nichols, tofu farmer and brother of Oklahoma City bomber Terry, who shows Moore the loaded Magnum .44 under his pillow and points...