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...television tower, Mosoco is a difficult target. "He has killed five or six," says one of his men, who are a mixture of unemployed youngsters and police officers. The police are well armed and in uniform, but the youths carry only knives, slingshot darts and the occasional Glock semiautomatic pistol. Each time Mosoco shoots, the young men murmur in satisfaction. Mosoco's victims will be added to some two dozen killed in violence last week stemming from the dismissal in March of almost half the East Timorese defense force. The 591 soldiers, most of whom come from the western part...
...scholar of Broadway music, Robert Kimball, had some nice arcana, like Mercer's rejected lyric for a Harold Arlen tune that, thanks to Ira Gershwin, became "The Man That Got Away." And at the end, one of Mercer's most important interpreters came on stage: Margaret Whiting, still a pistol at 81. The night I attended, she went dry on some lyrics to "One for My Baby," then won the audience back by muttering, in her best saloon-chanteuse alto, "Of all the songs to blow, it had to be this...
...like the idea of them." In the days when the only unholstered guns I'd seen were in the movies, I might have said the same. Guns for me equaled danger and crime. Even after I started shooting, I had a lingering sense that the rifle or pistol, even the brass rounds I was pressing into its magazine, might explode at any moment. I still handle guns with caution-the first rule of firearms safety is to treat every gun as if it's loaded. But I now know that to call them evil, as Australian Prime Minister John Howard...
...Department. Detective Sergeant Mike Keefe, a member of the Minneapolis force’s homicide unit, said Friday that the suspect is believed to be a member of the Sureño 13 street gang. The suspect was also charged with second degree assault and felony possession of a pistol, said Keefe, who declined to release the teen’s name because he is a minor. Police do not believe that Meat himself had any involvement in gang activity, Keefe said. The enmity between Meat and the Sureño 13 gang dates back to an incident several weeks...
...teen was also charged with second degree assault and felony possession of a pistol, said Keefe, who declined to release the teen’s name because the suspect is a minor...