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...Setting the Record Straight Swift Shooting In the story on British Olympic pentathlete Georgina Harland [May 17], we said that in the pistol-shooting section of the pentathlon, "competitors are given 40 seconds to fire off 20 shots." The 40-second time limit applies to each shot fired, not the entire 20-shot match...
NOTEBOOK: Saddam's pistol in the Oval Office; is Bush cooling on Ashcroft...
Things looked pretty black and one-sided until Brigadier General Norman D. Cota rallied us by capturing some men himself and running around the beach with a hand grenade and a pistol in his hand. [He] ran down the beach under fire and sent a call for reinforcements. Every man who could walk and fire a weapon charged up the hill later on in the day toward the enemy. I got hit in the left foot while crawling by a mine...
Moulton spent the nights sleeping on the dirt floor of an old pistol factory...
...bored 19th century housewife with a gun is a volatile vehicle for a high-voltage actress looking to make her mark, a kind of career-defining harpy Hamlet. Just ask Judy Davis, who's now appearing on the Sydney stage for the first time since firing Hedda's pistol in 1986. The ricochet from that legendary performance can still be felt with this brilliant, if unconventional, actress. Dodging the usual star trajectory, Davis has played neurosis for Woody Allen and, most recently, Nancy Reagan for American TV. So how to follow up Hedda nearly two decades...