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...plans to introduce a bill in February making it a crime for most people to be caught outside their home or business with a concealed weapon. Weicker says he intends for the law to lay the groundwork for an eventual ban on handguns in his state -- though as a lame-duck Governor he would be leaving the job of getting one as a tricky legacy to his successor. "I don't see any reason at all why anyone should have a handgun," he says...
This lack of color is somewhat the fault of our reporters, whose job it is to prod people into exciting and colorful expositions. Too often, athletes face lame reporters; after his perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the first question Don Larsen faced was, "Is this the best game you've ever pitched...
...writing a column for TIME and want to demonstrate what a lame novelist Robert James Waller is. Easy, in every sense. I get a copy of Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (which is published by Time Warner), pluck out a piece of lazy prose, and print it here: "A monkey called, sounding far and lonesome. The classic jungle sound from old Tarzan movies." Or I could go a step further and mimic Waller, as Billy Frolick does in his new book-length parody, The Ditches of Edison County ("Concave's scream echoed through the canyons and ditches of Edison County...
Keegan shares the usual civilized revulsion at war: a richly knowledgeable antipathy in his case. His gaze is clear, steady and morally complicated. He has been drawn all his life to military culture and the subject of war. Complications from a teenage case of tuberculosis left him lame, unfit for military duty. But he went on to teach military history at Sandhurst, the Royal Military Academy, for many years -- a soldier's life by association, at an intellectual remove...
...also gives Butch enough psychological backstory to explain most of his antisocial excesses. Seems his mother was a prostitute and his dad "beat the hell out of anything he ever came across, or screwed, or fathered." As abused children become abusive adults, so poorly parented Butch turns into a lame excuse for a father to Phillip. But the boy is ready to learn from, idolize -- and finally stand up to -- the first man who has taken a paternal interest...