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...hunter who wanders over state lines--say between Idaho and Montana--while chasing elk has committed a felony. The NRA has made much of such idiocies in our gun laws in its efforts to roll them back. Cleaning up details like this, and allowing hunting weapons a little freer rein is arguably not such a "cave in" to the minority...
...factor most likely to rein in the Saudis would be pleading and threats from their gulf brethren. "The pressures on the Saudis will increase. They have to ask themselves whether they can continue to take the heat from countries that need oil revenues, and the answer is no," says Henry Schuler of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. Iran has claimed that its brutal February advance into Iraq was partly a warning to the Saudis. Said Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i: "We shall respond to fists by fists. The price war is no less important...
...other league. That's Hockey East. It was formed two years ago, when Ivy athletic directors threatened to put a rein on the increasing professionalization of college hockey. The so-called super league has seven members and a 34-game regular-season schedule that includes frequent trips across the country for contests with Western College Hockey Association teams. Nonetheless, the ECAC is 5-1-1 against Hockey East this year...
...July the Reserve board voted to lift the 1985 M1 limit slightly, to 8%, but to restore the 7% target in 1986. If the board is to meet those goals, it will soon have to rein in the money supply. Martin and Seger voted against the 7% target for 1986, arguing that faster money growth may be necessary for an economic rebound. The Volcker-led majority, however, was worried that too much money would lead to an acceleration of inflation...
...more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony, the great piano virtuoso gave free rein to his bursting creativity, conjuring up demonic worlds through his pianistic and compositional sorcery...