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...precedent of tobacco. At some point in the last couple of generations, smoking became disreputable in American life--a sort of moral consensus formed. If juries were to start awarding damages to cities, or to individual gunshot victims, extracting millions from gun manufacturers, or at least forcing them to mount expensive defenses in hundreds of suits, then it is possible that the N.R.A. and other defenders of the gun might abandon their cold-dead-hand absolutism and begin to compromise a little. At least one Brooklyn jury has already issued a warning: last February it ordered three gun companies...
...needed to defend against derogatory remarks about a child's looks or race. In later teen years, it's not easy for a white parent to explain to his dark-skinned daughter why other white parents don't want their sons to date her. Amy and Brad Russell of Mount Vernon, Iowa, refuse to let any of their seven multi-ethnic adopted kids use race as a crutch. They also know the struggle will be lifelong. "I'm going to have six young black men in the house," Amy says. "I worry for their emotional and physical safety...
From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...
...Group--which traditionally included Radcliffe, Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College--has steadfastly maintained its identity as a collection of independent liberal arts colleges...
...advocates feel vindicated. Says Brigadier General Leroy Barnidge Jr., who runs Whiteman: "Even an airman with no stripes on his sleeves will say, 'We showed them.' Our guys landed in a driving rainstorm. We're the key ingredient in the bad weather over there." Pilots are delighted with their mount. Says one: "We don't worry about threats [such as plane-killing missiles], because the plane keeps you safe." In a low-tech touch, however, the Air Force phones all the pilots' wives the minute the planes finish over their targets, letting them know their husbands are en route back...