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Just in time for the holiday shopping rush: Instant background checks for gun purchasers to screen out felons and other undesirables. Mandated by the 1993 Brady Act, a national computerized background check goes into effect today, replacing the voluntary checks that have been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement agencies up to now. The program will cover handguns as well as rifles and shotguns...
Friday was the day he died a Washington death, stripping himself of power and becoming in that instant just a guy in a suburban tract house in Marietta, Ga., carrying out the trash. We all should have seen his resignation coming when, on Tuesday night, he came out swinging at the media, blaming them for his party's shellacking. With Nixonian petulance, he rejected suggestions that his party tanked because he had put all its eggs in Monica's basket. No, he said, it was the media's All Monica All the Time madness that kept him from getting...
Asked to explain the pair's prior statement that "men must learn to work with matter," Woodman explained that American culture breeds materialism, addiction and the "horizontal life" demand for instant gratification...
...opening of "Pas de Quatre" entailed the four statuesque dancers en pointe, fluttering across the stage in symmetrical configurations. As each attempted to outdo the next with instant charm gushing out of the numerous pas de bras and arabesques, it became humorously evident that the small Conservatory stage was not expansive enough to accommodate the simulated egos of such tutu-ed princesses. The simplicity of the choreography complimented the complex interplay of rivaling ballerinas, and each dancer carried off her role with distinct glares and cross-stage sneers...
...Martin's Press is determined to show the veracity of the old chestnut about why people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The publisher is rushing out 500,000 copies of an "instant" paperback book, Glass Houses: Shocking Profiles of Congressional Sex Scandals and Other Unofficial Misconduct by attorney Stanley Hilton and psychologist Anne-Renee Testa, due in stores by Election Day. The book's mission: to expose the hidden lives of some of those who will be judging President CLINTON. The book will review the ethical problems of more than 50 Senators and Congressional Representatives...