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...ban’s list of prohibited features is even sillier. It defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
Viewing the scene from across the street, some students said they were convinced that the guest was in fact the famous singer, though the staff of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, refused to comment on the event...
...today, semi-automatic assault weapons are once again legal in the United States—and all Americans are less secure as a result...
...group is dressed in golden T shirts advertising them as team alice mills. They are here to watch Alice in her 200-m individual medley semi-final. In this same stand a few hours ago, when Alice qualified from the heats, her mother was trembling so much she couldn't operate her mobile phone to call her husband on the other side of the pool. "I had to push the buttons for her," says an Australian spectator. She's here for the big race, the men's 200-m freestyle, but she and her compatriots have adopted Alice...
...second semi of the women's 200-m medley has been run, and Alice's time places her 10th. She's missed out on the final by a quarter of a second. But the next Olympics are only four years away. The papers are already suggesting Beijing won't be ready, but it will be; and so will Alice, and so will everyone in her team. Tonight, as they head for the tavernas of the Plaka, there are thousands of them...