Word: wakes
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...national political landscape that had seemed settled on gun matters in recent years has suddenly been given a new topography in the wake of the Colorado and Georgia shootings. Democrats like Gore and his rival, former Senator Bill Bradley, are sure that gun control is a winning issue. And their best evidence is perhaps the confusion in the enemy ranks. First the majority of Senate Republicans voted against requiring mandatory background checks at gun shows. They then voted for it. Elizabeth Dole applauded herself for her move advocating controls two weeks ago. "These events demonstrate why it's so important...
...power and will to fight. Their spokesmen point daily to encouraging signs: last week it was word of soldiers' desertions and scattered antiwar protests inside Yugoslavia. Allied military briefers called the strife the most interesting battle damage they have seen in weeks. Belgrade, spared bombing for days in the wake of the mistaken attack on Beijing's mission, is once again blackened by flames from allied fire...
...that it sometimes takes tragedy to draw our attention to widespread problems in America, but that has been the case in the aftermath of the Littleton, Colo., massacre last month. In the wake of the shooting, Congress has responded with long overdue gun control measures designed to keep guns out of the hands of juveniles...
Increasing employment and decreased crime in the wake of the economic boom counter Murray's assertions...
Berkowitz's letter to Rudenstine comes in the wake of an editorial, published in Wednesday's Crimson, in which Berkowitz suggests that the University establish an institute to investigate the ethics of its internal proceedings...