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Since New Year's Day, Washington has seen 55 murders, and City Council Chairman David Clarke has proposed a radical solution to the wave of homicides. Last week he introduced a bill that would further strengthen the city's tough gun-control laws by extending a legal doctrine called "strict liability" to firearms. The law would classify guns as inherently dangerous products whose manufacturers and distributors can be held financially liable for damages caused by their use -- prompting gun dealers to try to keep their wares out of the wrong hands. The statute, says Clarke, "will attempt to do through...
Hope and Elizabeth Dole attended the Law School together at a time when women made up a scant 2 percent of the student body. Hope says they've been close ever since...
Educational issues have been among Hope's major concerns in politics, her son says. "She loves to teach and learn, and she loves the law," he says...
Zachary, who concentrates in East Asian Studies and Economics and plays on the varsity baseball team, says his mother always wanted him to go to Harvard, where she attended law school in the early 1960s. Hope's other child, Miranda, was accepted early to Harvard this year and considers it her first choice, he adds...
Hope's close friends include Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Colo.), who was in her class at the Law School. She is also acquainted with both President Bush and former President Ronald Reagan, her son says...