Word: weaponeering
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After the arrival of Altchek and Hoff last year, the Crimson offense was filled with a smorgasbord of young talent. Fucito’s arrival this season adds yet another weapon to the Harvard team...
...LIFTED. U.S. trade sanctions against LIBYA; after it agreed to eliminate its nuclear-weapon and long-range-missile programs; in Washington, D.C. Long an enemy of the West under leader Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libya has admitted responsibility for the 1988 downing of a Pan Am jet in which 259 people died, along with a spate of other terrorist attacks in the 1980s. The U.S. relaxed most sanctions against Libya last April, but still considers it a "state sponsor of terrorism." The recent agreements could result in direct air service between the two countries and the possible importation of Libyan...
...prohibited features is even sillier. It defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
This is where we live now, and where the final battles of this campaign will be fought. Anyone can carry a weapon. The traditional heralds compete with the authors and bloggers and filmmakers and cable barkers and radio rabble-rousers who appeal to those who tailor the news to fit their political niche. Campaign-finance reform has changed the channels through which the money moves, restricting fund raising by the candidates but filling the war chests of allied guerrillas. Above all, the stakes of the outcome seem to change the rules. If you believe that your children's safety depends...
Rodriguez, an eyewitness to the stabbing and a participant in the fight, testified to seeing Pring-Wilson holding the alleged murder weapon...