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...things are as painful to watch as a presidential candidate who won't take the medicine he needs and can't resist the poison he doesn't. For a moment last week, Bob Dole seized upon a good idea just when he needed it, a way to end the tobacco war with Katie Couric and perhaps win some points with soccer moms who worry about crime when they vote. Best of all, it was something he had wanted to do for months: end his opposition to Congress's 1994 ban on 19 types of so-called assault weapons. As majority...
...partisan differences than get a bill passed. Already fading are prospects for a modest bill to make medical insurance portable from job to job. For now Lott is showing little inclination to modify a conservative-backed amendment to establish so-called medical savings accounts, an addition Democrats call a "poison pill." With cooperation like that, the cease-fire won't last long...
...Christian right takes this belief a step further, suggesting that gay activists are in fact attempting to poison the youth of America with same-sex propaganda. Christian conservatives fear that children are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life, when they are not old enough to make a mature judgment about their own inclinations. The Utah legislature recently passed a bill banning gay clubs in state high schools. And at Merrimack High School in New Hampshire, teachers have stopped using a film on the life of Walt Whitman because it mentions...
Then again, if two safe headache remedies could make all painkillers look like poison, probably...
Graham's first victim is his school friend Mick, who was planning to take young Sue the librarian to the "Dickie Boon Show." Mick did not know, however, that Sue was the object of Graham's affection. Soon after Mick, Graham decides to use the poison on his step-mother. When she doesn't go quickly enough, Graham decides to try another poison that he'd read about in the comic books, thallium. Excited about his new discovery, Graham starts to use thallium on other members of his family, until he is caught by the police and sent...