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...miles out of the district to Fairfax, Virginia, will be rewarded by another of the area's unusual institutions: the 68-year-old National Firearms Museum, tel: (1-703) 267 1600; www.nra.nationalfirearms.museum. Run by the National Rifle Association, it has one of the country's largest collections of rare and historical guns. More than 2,000 are on display, including those that belonged to Napoleon (an 1800 double flintlock fowler shotgun), cowgirl Annie Oakley and Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, says senior curator Doug Wicklund. On view through the end of 2006 is a special exhibit called the "Arsenal...
...choice advocates can reframe the debate over abortion by arguing as Bill Clinton has that abortion ought to be “safe, legal, and rare.” EC, along with safe-sex education, is a powerful means to this last end, enabling the pro-choice community to prove in concrete terms that its members believe, along with most of America, that abortion should be employed only a last resort, albeit a perfectly legal...
...change anything about the program and really home in very strongly on the fact that this is a legitimate part of presidential warmaking power," says an adviser. Bush launched a ferocious defense in his Dec. 17 weekly radio address, inviting in a network camera to capture the rare live delivery of the speech as he declared that the no-longer-secret surveillance program makes it "more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time." G.O.P. strategists argue that Democrats have little leeway to attack on the issue because it could make them look weak...
...Need more animals? The Cowardly Lion. And Toto too.) The film, which flopped in its original release but went on to entertain families happily ever after, looks Technicolor terrific on this three-disc set, which includes five promo documentaries, 10 period portraits of the stars and a rare audio clip of Judy Garland sobbing her way through a reprise of Over the Rainbow--a surprise minute or so of heartrending musical melodrama...
...true, talk to him more than any of the others one-on-one. He would call him and talk to him in private. He had a confidence that Stanley didn't want anything. He had no ulterior motives and agendas, and that's something which is very rare, as you see. You see how much he's different from everybody else, including [March on Washington coordinator] Bayard Rustin and lots of other people who are brilliant, brilliant people, but they all have their own angles, and also Stanley criticized King unvarnished and straight-on as opposed to in great rhetorical...