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...fail us? Gun-rights supporters rightly point out that one of the charges against Buford Furrow was illegal possession of a firearm. Illegal, signifying that enforcement, not legislation, is the answer to keeping the rage of the crazies impotent. The police? At his press conference Wednesday, L.A. police Chief Bernard Parks resisted all his political urges and declared that martial law was not coming to the City of Angels. The "community" of Los Angeles, he hoped, would find a way to heal without a cop on every corner. The courts? Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding...
...multiethnic Kosovo, and opposes independence. But it?s not only a problem of principle: Both Belgrade and Moscow have warned that they won?t tolerate the KLA running riot in the province, and if NATO won?t stop it, they?ll do it themselves. As if to underline the point, Russian peacekeepers last week briefly detained KLA military chief Agim Ceku over the issue of his personnel wearing uniforms and carrying side-arms. NATO can ill-afford a confrontation with the KLA, but it may be even less inclined to allow the Russians to get into...
...like the proverbial piano player in this one, okay? The international press found itself momentarily under fire Wednesday when an Indian helicopter ferrying journalists reportedly came under fire from Pakistan. Having hardly cooled since the recent Kashmir crisis, tensions between the old enemies went straight back to boiling point Tuesday after Indian jets shot down a Pakistani reconnaissance aircraft along a disputed coastal border. India and Pakistan both claim the plane was in their air space, and each side rushed to produce scraps of debris Wednesday to prove their point. While both newly nuclear states vowed, through gritted teeth...
...fake mustache. The mustache was my idea--it seems to be part of the NASCAR uniform. Much of what Andrew said made sense to me until he got to the double-clutch, heel-toe downshifting maneuver, which is the heart of racing technique. It was at this point that I had to raise my hand and inform Andrew that I didn't know how to drive a stick shift. He asked if I was kidding. I said...
...Bill Clinton has consciously turned over the reins of political power--the power of appointment, the power of pardon, the power relating to those things that affect partisan politics--to Al Gore," Biden says. "Whether that's true or not, and it appears to be, is not really the point. That's an unusual tactic, a 1940s tactic. Not retribution, but just real clear." Gore's camp had no response...