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...Richards quit after concluding that the N.R.A. had become "more about lobbying for extremes than the mainstream people who just want to go hunting." A large number of those mainstream folks are now ex-members. Currently, four of every 10 members drop out when it comes time to renew their $35 annual membership. "All the smaller voices like mine," says hunter Ray Guzman, "aren't being heard." Speaking with a louder, shriller voice clearly works within the n.r.a. The question is whether America's other citizens, including responsible gun owners, will make themselves heard as well...
What do Newt Gingrich and Stephen King have in common? Mammoth book tours. Starting this summer, a spokesman revealed today, the House Speaker will hit bookshops and bookstops in 40 U.S. cities to promote "To Renew America," the bound version of his longtime philosophy-and-civics course. The decision, oddly, comes after a political outcry forced Gingrich to turn down a $4.5 million advance from publisher HarperCollins. And yet: the dynamic Speaker, who plans four days of face time in New Hampshire next month, has lately enjoyed speculation that he'll enter the 1996 GOP presidential campaign. After today...
...75th birthday,Pope John Paul IIsaid surgery and recent health problems will not drive him to step down from St. Peter's Throne, even though Church law allows him to resign if he feels incapacitated. "I renew before Christ the offer of my availability to serve the Church for as long as He wants," the pontiff told 18,000 people in St. Peter's Square, who sang "Happy Birthday." Fellow Poles in the crowd regaled him with an even more upbeat song: "Stolat," or "100 Years...
...once again renew our support for student choice in the housing lottery. Randomizing the system will not diversify social relations any more than the diverse first-year rooming groups survive into the sophomore year. Students learn from diversity in the classrooms, in extracurricular groups and on athletic teams. But students will still socialize with people who largely share their interests and their backgrounds...
...Review and renew, not renew and retreat," he said of President Clinton's review of affirmative action...