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...that struggle is being made even more difficult by the National Rifle Association. Last month the N.R.A.'s deputy general counsel, Robert Dowlut, charged that the C.H.A.'s gun ban infringes on residents' constitutional right to bear arms. The N.R.A. maintains that law-abiding residents need guns to protect themselves from criminals. Furthermore, it says, because most of Chicago's public-housing residents are black, a ban on guns would have a "disproportionate impact on persons of African heritage" -- a particularly offensive argument since virtually all the victims of project shootings are also black...
Many Eastern European leaders said they feared that support for privatization was waning as citizens were starting to bear the burden of reform, according to Robert P. Beschel, a consultant for Project Liberty who attended the workshop...
Thou shalt not bear insensitive witness against PC terminology, nor shall thou speak ill of the differently aged, differently abled or animal companions...
...should bear the responsibility? The Department of Labor is not willing. The agency argues that it does not regulate insurance companies and points to the industry-rating companies that continued to give Executive Life very high marks throughout the period when the pension plans were being converted to its annuities. Meanwhile, in Oakland a group of Executive Life's annuity holders are suing the insurer, the employer that converted their pensions to those annuities and the California Department of Insurance for allowing...
Capital-punishment opponents are divided; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, an organization with 120 affiliated groups, has taken no stance. Some members argue that if Americans want the death penalty, they should face the consequences of their action squarely. If they cannot bear the thought of watching public executions, then they may realize that it does not make moral sense to permit executions in private either. Other death-penalty opponents maintain that whatever the potential gains, televised executions are too ghoulish to consider. Says Donald Gillmor, professor of media ethics at the University of Minnesota...