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...than a dozen local groups held a previously scheduled press conference to launch a petition drive to ban almost all handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we've been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it's got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven't worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November...
Perhaps the most telling sign that even America's softest hearts are hardening is a radical reframing of the debate into terms that reject a sympathetic view of the homeless. In the '80s, the issue's leading spokesman was Robert Hayes, founder of the Coalition for the Homeless, who identified the three main causes of homelessness as "housing, housing and housing." People who challenged that thinking were accused of blaming the victims. Today the leading voices are authors Alice Baum and Donald Burnes, who claim the very word "homelessness" is a misnomer coined by activists to persuade the public that...
...answer is that the INS is simply outmanned: with 6,000 miles of open borders, a burgeoning population of illegals and a relatively static force of only 5,600 agents, the U.S. has effectively lost control of its territorial integrity, especially in the Southwest. Duke Austin, a senior INS spokesman in Washington, puts it bluntly: "The system is -- there's no other word -- bankrupt, in money and resources...
...will probably stay anyway. "If they're denied or don't show for their hearing, do we go look for them?" asks INS spokesman Austin...
...Walt Disney World is concerned, Michael Jackson is still a hot film property -- his movie Captain EO "continues to be one of our most popular attractions," says a spokesman. Several months ago, however, the star felt decidedly fragile discussing his film career at a dinner with some of Hollywood's biggest players: according to reports last week, Jackson at one point inexplicably laid his head down on the table and began to cry uncontrollably. Maybe he was thinking of the films he already has in development at various studios, including Columbia Pictures, corporate sibling of his record company. Here they...