Word: walls
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...candidates, 54 in 21 states during the past election cycle. Now, with a national stage at his disposal, Heston has vowed to wage "a cultural war" in which gun control is only the first line of skirmish. At issue is nothing less than how Americans define themselves. From a wall festooned with flintlock rifles, Heston takes down a skinning knife made from a deer antler. "It was given to me when I was made a blood brother of the Miniconjou Sioux in 1951," he explains. He fingers it lovingly. And then the actor, who traces his Scots ancestors back...
...other boys also had experience with firearms. Carneal learned to shoot at summer camp and on a shooting trip with his neighbor's dad (from whom he stole the murder weapon). Woodham kept a map on his wall with the bilious slogan "One Nation Under...
...produce the election fodder they had anticipated. Newt Gingrich, who had earlier called for the trip's postponement, admitted Clinton's triumph and approved of a closer U.S.-China relationship through gritted teeth. "It's less expensive to be friends than to be enemies," he noted. And with the Wall Street Journal leading a chorus of praise from traditional Clinton critics as the President was preparing to leave China, White House press flak Ann Lewis was muttering a suspicion that it must be April Fool...
...Japan's ravaged banking system, the Japanese Prime Minister said he favored permanent tax cuts as the other half of a strategy to revive the moribund Japanese economy. "This was the other major step that the U.S. has been seeking on behalf of the entire region," says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. "Cleaning up the bad debt allows banks to start lending to businesses again; tax cuts give Japanese people more money to start spending again...
...some of News Corp.'s sizable debt load -- which should pay off in a rising stock price. (News Corp. immediately gained $2 on the announcement.) And if there isn't exactly synergy between a baseball team and a movie studio in the entertainment industry, the formula works on Wall Street. Says Schwartz: "He's maximizing the value that he has by putting all the hot properties on sale together." Just imagine if the Dodgers start winning...