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Though N.R.A. membership has declined by 300,000 since 1984, the group set a fund-raising record of $15 million in 1989. It spent $1.5 million to defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race, and its efforts are credited with turning a portion of the vote against him. And since 1981, when Morton Grove, Ill., became the first American town to pass a comprehensive handgun ban, the N.R.A. has persuaded 38 states to pass pre-emptive laws that prohibit similar actions by local communities...
Peter Whitelaw, who lives down a hill from the crash site, said he could see a small portion of the downed plane through the trees. He said there were few homes in the area...
...early portion of the game won't matter, though, if Harvard doesn't "execute well and get a chance for those good shots," James said...
...appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River. A stunned city is left to wonder which is worse: the ease with which it embraced Stuart's lie that a black mugger murdered his wife for a bit of jewelry, or the knowledge that evil can wear an expensive suit, hold a respectable job, own a house in a pleasant suburb...
...peripatetic TV kingpin has relaxed his day-to-day involvement in TBS and toned down his former "Captain Outrageous" image. Divorced from his second wife, Turner lives in a penthouse atop CNN headquarters in downtown Atlanta. But he spends an increasing portion of his time at his various retreats: two plantations in South Carolina and Florida and a ranch in Montana, where he goes fly-fishing and plans to keep a herd of buffalo. "He's much mellower now," says an associate. "He doesn't yell at people." Turner puts it differently: "I am maturing. That's better than aging...