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Though scarcely visible in the fight for the crime bill, the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban, Clinton got the message last week. The President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General...
This Thursday marks the first anniversary of the Waleses' official separation -- a year that has taken its toll on the entire family. Diana threw herself into her many charities, but she kept some distance from Buckingham Palace. It was hard to know who was dissing whom. The Princess was conspicuously absent from Trooping the Color in June and the Queen Mum's birthday in August...
...conventional wisdom shared by his friends: "When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way forever." And juvenile humor naturally appeals to him: "Did you hear about the leper cowboy? He threw his leg over his horse...
Remember when all those preppies got drunk and threw up all over the place during the Head of the Charles Regatta? Well, the security guards at the entrances to the Yard could regularly patrol the gates with blood-hounds to ensure that not one stray, camera-toting Yalie is allowed to wander through. In addition, we could demand presentation of the proper papers at each entry door. It's already standard operating procedure in small Communist countries...
...that for instance people tease me about having been made a Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. But my feeling is, gee, I must be the first openly gay writer to have received that award, and I'm just old enough to have remembered when people threw stones at gays. So it seems to me a worthwhile normalization of the status if not the work...