Word: richard
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...Colt-manufactured myth, indeed, an ad slogan: "God may have made men, but Samuel Colt made them equal." The notion of guns as instruments of equality ought to seem self-evidently crazy, but for a long time Hollywood--and thus we all--lived by it. Cultural historian Richard Slotkin of Wesleyan University debunks it forever in a recent essay, "Equalizer: The Cult of the Colt." "If we as individuals have to depend on our guns as equalizers," says Slotkin, "then what we will have is not a government of laws but a government of men--armed...
...they are protecting auto-industry jobs and giving consumers the vehicles they want, but now they are running into stronger opposition. Next week the Senate may consider a complicated parliamentary move proposed by three Senators--one Republican, Slade Gorton of Washington, and two Democrats, Dianne Feinstein of California and Richard Bryan of Nevada--that could finally overturn the rider, though at last count they were still three votes...
...Reported by Richard Diaz/New York
Political heavyweights woo him. Candidates invite him to fundraising dinners and policy addresses. But yesterday, New York Times senior national political correspondent Richard L. Berke's only destination was the Institute of Politics (IOP), where the former fellow there talked about the campaign and reminisced about his Harvard days...
Also to be honored at the ceremony is Ford, the 38th president, who will be recognized for "his honesty and integrity" and his efforts to restore confidence in government after the Watergate scandal led to Richard M. Nixon's resignation, a tribute from the White House said...