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...advocates stress that a few extreme cases shouldn't penalize law-abiding citizens who exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms. Roy Richmond, for example, just bought his first small handgun. He's the heat-packing pastor of a nondenominational church near Oklahoma City. He's carrying the weapon for protection. "Things are getting worse and worse," he says. "There needs to be some people out there with guns." With the weapons business booming, Richmond and his fellow firearms advocates are seeing their wish fulfilled...
...Sophie Ramayat, an 18-year-old in Silicon Valley, joined the NYU 2013 group as well as groups for three other schools she was accepted into - the University of Richmond, the University of Washington and American University - and has been browsing the discussion boards on them to get a preview of life on the different campuses. "You can kind of tell what the students are like," she says. "I noticed that everyone at the University of Richmond is white." (See how to get off college waiting lists...
...told a top Parliamentary committee Wednesday night that unless the Canada capitulates, he will move operations to the U.S. and Mexico, a position that has not only infuriated the CAW, but also triggered a public backlash against the teetering automaker. "I'm truly shocked," says analyst Dennis DesRosiers of Richmond Hill, Ont.-based DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. "LaSorda said things I thought I would never hear from an auto executive." The privately owned automaker has not shown the same flash of bravado and temper in dealing with Congress and the United Autoworkers (UAW) at home. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
Bankers get that. Since last summer, at least 30 groups have filed to start new banks, according to SNL Financial. From Richmond, Va., to Tulsa, Okla., to Pacific Palisades, Calif., community bankers are hitting the pavement, raising funds a few hundred thousand dollars at a time from stock-market-wary investors. It's not an easy sell, and regulators, spooked by the wave of failures, are making it tougher than ever to win approval. For entrepreneurs who can run that gauntlet, though, the stars are aligned for small independent banks in a way they probably never will be again...
...make a deliberate effort to transcend race in your political career? Fatima Syed, RICHMOND...