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While counting departmental courses is popular among students, such a proposal would pose a number of challenges for the College, committee members said...
...calling for more stringent gun laws. "We must take this as a warning that we are becoming like America and act before it is too late," said governing Conservative Party legislator David Mellor. Currently, people must be prove they have a good reason to won a gun and pose no threat to society in order to be certified to buy a gun. Applicants also must be recommended by a professional person who has known them for at least two years. But Hamilton, apparently, had no problem getting licensed to own the two .357 revolvers and two 9mm pistols he used...
...doesn't pose something that's tremendously new, nor was it in any way unexpected," says Castel. "We didn't see it as a surprise move...
Hollywood, in its drive to make shocking, profitable movies, has described mentally ill people in a manner that has caused the population to have unjustified fear of mentally ill people. Generally speaking, mentally ill people are not dangerous. Even the vast majority of medically treated psychotics pose absolutely no danger to anyone...
...also true that food can pose a threat in any locale. Recall President Ford's run-in with a tamale in San Antonio, Texas, when he tried to bite into it before removing the corn-husk wrapper. But New York is where they pile Pelion on Ossa--or kreplach on calzone. Democratic operatives still speak of the near disasters that occurred when first Robert Kennedy and then George McGovern sat down at kosher delicatessens and ordered a sandwich--and a glass of milk...