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...swaggering stud--Rimbaud and Rambo. Garcia, who was no friend of the Soloflex, nonetheless fitted the mold of iconoblaster. In his drug taking he was a role model to some, a sacrificial totem to others. Wasn't he killing himself to create more beautiful music? That music was often swell, and as leader of the most fan-friendly band in rock, Garcia was a sort of secular saint of pop culture. But he stuffed himself with seductive toxins--and the myth of the bohemian king--until he burst. His epitaph could be three words: Great. Full. Dead...
...FROM CRACKING DOWN, ATF allowed the number of licensed gun dealers to swell to nearly 300,000 by 1993. Often it failed to conduct thorough background checks for prior criminal offenses. In a survey it found that 72% of its licensed dealers never even bothered to open a bona fide store, but operated instead from their homes. Under Magaw, however, the bureau has lately got much tougher on applicants, requiring for the first time that they submit fingerprints and a photograph. Now the number of dealers is falling at a rate of 150 dealers a day, an ATF spokesman says...
...Assure the people you have just insulted that actually, you think they're just swell...
When Rosenthal and her roommates opened it,they found a sheet of paper saying essentially,"We are informing you that you're in Currier andit's a swell place, and if you give us $25, youcan re-enter the lottery," she recalls...
...hurt; now I'm calming down, but the city won't let me." Does the fact that Fuhrman's friends claim he now socializes with people of all races--which he apparently does--and that he's a fine cop mean that Fuhrman is, or always has been, a swell guy? Not necessarily. A more accurate description may be that he was emotionally ill--and is still a blunt, aggressive guy. "If he sees you doing something stupid," explains Detective Gary Fullerton, his former boss, "he calls you stupid...