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...love with all your heart, you go crazy," said Stacey, who was born on Scott's third birthday in 1968. That was an audacious usurpation of the limelight for which her older brother, she says, never quite forgave her and that, until now, he has been unable to undo. "You grasp for hope and a prayer." Plus one other thing. During the final two nights of O'Grady's ordeal, Stacey slept with her brother's old, well-used teddy bear. She later explained, "You cling to whatever...
...tragedy at Oklahoma City. The images of that day will forever be ingrained in the national consciousness: limbs and lives--and most terrifying of all, babies--strewn about in a smoldering pile of death. There is not, nor will there ever be, a bill or verdict powerful enough to undo the spectacular crime committed in Oklahoma City. But it is naive and irresponsible for our media and our political leaders to fail to address the substantive reasons for the bombing, rather than dwell on its admittedly catastrophc results...
...Brady Law and assault-weapons ban made 1994 a banner year for the forces of gun control, 1995 is quickly shaping up as the year of the Great Rollback. With one eye cocked at next year's presidential race, Senate majority leader Robert Dole pledged last week to undo the assault-weapons ban by this summer. So far this year, three states (Virginia, Arkansas and Utah) have joined the four states that loosened restrictions on CCW (carrying concealed weapons) permits last year. Legislation is pending or awaiting gubernatorial signature in 16 states. In Texas last Wednesday the state senate passed...
...Podhoretz voiced his approval of recentpolitical trends. "We are seeing something verycheerful--an attempt to undo the damage of thepolicies of the Left going back to the New Deal,"he said...
...success of affirmative action that has made it vulnerable. Before the major civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s, a century of Jim Crow laws in the South and entrenched practices elsewhere enforced a world of preferences for white men--one that no mere change in the laws could undo by itself. Without affirmative action, it's unlikely that African Americans--or women--would have been able to open up such white male bastions as big-city police and fire departments. Helped by affirmative action, about one-third of blacks have made their way into the middle class...