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...flags. After the Columbine massacre, they successfully snuffed a congressional attempt to close the loophole that allows people who buy firearms at gun shows or from one another--such transactions represent 40% of all sales--to avoid the Brady background-check system. The N.R.A. also has the tenacity to wage its battles state by state. California did succeed recently in repealing the law that protected gun manufacturers from lawsuits by cities wanting compensation for the costs of coping with gun violence. Nearly 30 states, however, have passed such shield laws in the past five years...
...many students said they are frustrated and upset as they wait for paychecks or receive checks for less than their hourly wage...
...Muslim world, seems as intractable as ever. Mighty the U.S.'s resources may be, but in terms of military, diplomacy, intelligence gathering and synthesis, the system is being stretched. The CIA, with a limited number of spies and a small paramilitary force, will find it hard to wage a worldwide war against al-Qaeda at the same time as it must collect evidence of weapons programs in Iraq and perhaps hunt down Saddam Hussein. A war in Iraq, says a senior U.S. intelligence official, "will make things harder but not impossible. It cannot help but strain...
...never having the type of defined-benefit pension plan that is proving so troublesome for other carriers. Pension plans at eight major airlines are underfunded to the tune of $12 billion. Southwest was, however, the first major airline to establish an employee stock-ownership plan without asking for wage concessions...
...would be easy to find fault with the idea put forth by Ebon Y. Lee ’03 that even the search for peace is not always preferable to war (Column, “How the Weak Wage War,” Oct. 21), but there is at least some logic to this concept—sometimes peace is so elusive that war is the only viable option. This controversial idea holds little water when war is a potentially viable solution, but none at all if the conflict is not a winnable one. The government of Colombia is simply...