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...full-time job as a grain inspector. His grandfather served in the Air Force, and two of his uncles were Navy men. (His dad left home when he was young.) Because of his dyslexia, Braddock had trouble in school. But he thought to himself, Where else can you shoot a fully automatic weapon--legally--and get paid for it? A lengthy conversation ensues about guns (he owns an M1A and wants an AR-10 for hunting) and ends with this odd observation: Iraqis, he says, are more afraid of pistols, which they associate with executions, than automatic weapons...
...Homebuilder stocks account for 20% of his portfolio, and the only selling he?s doing is to prevent housing from swamping his other holdings as prices shoot higher. This is remarkable in light of indisputable evidence that the housing boom is at last slowing. Existing home sales plunged 5.7% in December and the median home price edged 1.9% lower, the government recently reported...
...Here’s my take,” said Matt Falbe, an employee at Boston Paintball, where the event took place. “I don’t think the Democrats should get guns, but if the Republicans shoot them they get the death penalty...
...Crimson struggled from the line all night, converting just 19 of its 33 opportunities, well below its season average. “We didn’t help ourselves,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “To get to the line 33 times and only shoot 58 percent, that’s not a good number for us.” Crimson guards Ko Yada and Drew Housman, as well as forward Zach Martin, each hit three-pointers in the final minute. But the Bulldogs (10-8, 2-1) went 10-for-12 from the line...
After 39 minutes and 56 seconds of containment and uncharacteristically poor shooting, Brown guard Sarah Hayes finally found the hole she had sought all night. And once the hole opened, there was no closing it. The athletic Hayes, fleet of foot and with the highest vertical on the court, juked Harvard guard Laura Robinson on an inbounds play and sprinted upcourt just as her teammate threw a perfect baseball pass down the left sideline. A few dribbles later, Hayes put that vertical leap to good use, jumping over three frantic, out-of-place Harvard defenders and burying a 20-footer...