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Most law professors give the amendment the same limited reading. But there is a dissenting minority. In a widely noted article in the Yale Law Journal in 1989, Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas, who describes himself as "a card-carrying A.C.L.U. member who doesn't own a gun," argued that the Second Amendment limits the government's authority to regulate the private possession of arms. Says Levinson: "Liberal academics view the Second Amendment as an embarrassment, like the drunken uncle who shows up at the family reunion. They would never be so cavalier about an amendment they...
...Marion ("Sandy") Sanford, a respected and putatively neutral Austin lobbyist, says, "This is not the N.R.A,; this is spontaneous combustion"--fueled by the same dread that has stoked the success of death-penalty campaigns and "Three strikes and you're in." The desire for self-preservation in the face of an increase in random violence and understaffed police forces can express itself, without paradox, in both an assault-weapons ban and in the desire to pack one's own handgun. Says Gary Huttenhoff, a real estate appraiser who has just picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson...
...have been encouraging: according to the backers, dishes have sold out in the 41 states where they have been marketed, and 28% of the early buyers are cable subscribers. (Only 12% retained their cable after getting a dish.) Still, many industry observers are cautious. Tom Wolzien, an analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a New York City investment firm, predicts that dbs might steal away 1% of cable's growth over the next five to six years -- "which isn't a killer." However, with the cable industry chafing under federal regulations that have put a cap on rates, any inroads...
...become richer. Thanks to record sales of everything from derivatives to new stock and bond issues to merger financing, the pretax profits of U.S. brokers and investment banks zoomed to an unprecedented $8.9 billion last year. "I see no reason why 1994 won't be better than 1993," exults Sanford Weil, chairman of Travelers Cos., which owns Smith Barney Shearson. "We're having a great time...
Angier's attorney Sanford A. Kowal did not wishto comment on the case yesterday