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Examines whether state and local gun laws must align with the constitutional right to bear arms...
...their own kind of information to the table: news about the look and feel of a place, the light, the dust, the weather. They say something about the emotional climate too--like the difficulty of identifying the enemy in a place where the distinction between the insurgents and the local population may be indiscernible...
...Square's version of Oktoberfest, one of many riffs on the original held around the world, is sedate in comparison. Cantabridgians have celebrated the German beer festival for over 30 years, and today, Oktoberfest festivities commandeered much of the Square with brass bands from across the country, local jewelry makers, and the omnipresent scent of deep-fried mystery food wafting through...
...Memphis, Tenn., the diocese appealed to local donors and philanthropists to the tune of tens of millions of dollars over the past decade, which allowed for the reopening of eight schools that had been shuttered. Yet such appeals to the wealthy have been blunted by the economic downturn, which has pointed up the problem with depending on the kindness of others. "What's keeping a lot of schools in the inner city going is philanthropy from other people," says Karen Ristau, president of the National Catholic Education Association. "But it's difficult, because if you have to continuously raise millions...
...march on Washington that gays staged Sunday on the National Mall drew something like 200,000 people - that's a good guess based on conversations with many of the organizers and local authorities, although estimates of Mall crowds are notoriously unreliable. But one number you can take to the bank: the average age of those backstage who wore walkie-talkie headsets and staff badges, the men (and a few women) who were behind much of the organizing effort, wasn't over 30. And that, by far, was the oddest thing about the march: Why would a generation wired to their...