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...latest gun-related violence. The President told an audience earlier this week that the rate of accidental gun deaths among American children is nine times higher than in the world's 25 other largest countries combined. While opponents of gun control have indicated they might be amenable to trigger lock legislation alone, Branegan doubts Clinton will let the other measures go. "The White House is pretty unabashed about wanting more than safety locks," he says. So Clinton is looking at a fight, and it could be protracted; the NRA is noted for its ability to tie up disagreeable legislation...
...Last Saturday was the most singularly successful day I've ever had at a racetrack. After scouring the Internet for solid handicaps, I stumbled across a site called horsestats.com. For $50 a week, Geoffrey Rout, genius that he is, gives you one mortal lock. Since we are "problem gamblers," and since anything that expensive must, we reasoned, be worth something, we subscribed. As I forsook Lawton, the oracle of my childhood, I knew how Judas felt...
...looks as though it's back to the drawing board for Gerhard Schroeder. The German chancellor, who has long sought to have a German installed at the helm of the one of the world's ruling bodies, thought he had a lock on the top job at the International Monetary Fund - after all, since its inception after World War II, Europe has traditionally picked the IMF's leader (America got to choose the head of the World Bank). And on Monday, following months of lobbying, Schroeder convinced the 14 other European Union member nations to throw their support behind Caio...
...still works, depending on the stock's appreciation. If you have $500,000 in stock with a cost basis of $50,000, for example, it's a lock. The penalty applies only to the cost basis, in this case amounting...
Tony Johnson, by the way, said he would have voted Bush except that as an ex-con, he had lost his voting rights. A friend chugged by in a pickup, and Tony made like The Rifleman, pretending to lock and load. It seemed prudent at this juncture to ask Tony why he'd been in the can. Weapons charges, he said. "I had you in my sights too," he added, talking about my approach...