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...want to see Medicare cuts pay for (House-approved) tax cuts, and that's what may be in the offing here. We're not going to play that game."TIME Washington economics correspondent Suneel Ratancautions that the GOP numbers may change: "They know that they're touching the third rail of American politics...
Colin Ferguson, the man who gunned down six commuters and wounded 19 others in a 1993 shooting rampage on New York's Long Island Rail Road, was sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison, ensuring a stay behind bars for life...
...pain? Some 30 miles east of Montclair, in a courtroom in Mineola, New York, survivors of another mass killing tried last week to deal with their anger in an unusual way: confronting their attacker. Two dozen people who sustained injuries or lost relatives in the so-called Long Island Rail Road massacre came to have their say at the sentencing of Colin Ferguson, the man convicted of murdering six riders and wounding 19 on a commuter train in December 1993. "The fear and pain I felt I will never forget," said Robert Giugliano, who was shot in the chest. Then...
...Nelson, a New York-based American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
...prove that, however, local land-control advocates must wrest power away from the feds-and that can lead to bitter confrontations. In New Mexico's Otero County, 600 angry people packed a civic center recently to rail against Washington and plan a strategy for combatting the Endangered Species Act. Otero has now formed a public lands committee to fight for its rights, and has hired a Los Angeles-based legal group, the Individual Rights Foundation, to press its claims in court. In Idaho's Lemhi County, 2,500 citizens turned out at a local fairground on a sub-zero...