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...March 9, President Bill "I feel your pain" Clinton on CNN's "Burden of Proof" suggested this incident was preventable if Congress could pass the tougher gun control legislation he wants . The latest anti-gun bill would require safety locks on new guns, ban the import of large-capacity ammunition clips and require a three-day waiting period for background checks before buying weapons at gun shows. Makes you feel completely safe, doesn...
...squeaked through the Senate last year, and now Clinton is leaning heavily on the House to act on the measure before the spring recess begins in mid-March. If passed, the legislation would require all gun manufacturers to include trigger safety locks on new guns, ban the import of high-volume ammunition clips and dismember the current loophole exempting some gun show patrons from a three-day waiting period before picking up their guns...
William Cobbett is a pompous English import who bloviated in his Porcupine's Gazette on behalf of Hamilton and his law-and-order Federalists. His rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...
...even though hiking may remain reality-based, it will have its online elements. People are already finding new hiking buddies over the Internet. Here lies the biggest import of the expanding online experience. Even if tele-immersion is still crude in 2025, cyberspace will have reshaped life because it will have kept doing what it has been doing--nourishing shared enthusiasms. Even before most Americans had heard of e-mail, there were chat groups with names like alt.fetish.foot and some environmentalists were mobilizing online. But the more people online, the easier it is to find your own special interest...
...against this background that in June of that year, Keith Lindner, then president of Chiquita and one of Carl's three sons in the family businesses, wrote a "Dear Ambassador" letter to Mickey Kantor outlining concerns over Europe's import restrictions. There was little response...