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Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...
...radio from time to time during the morning show on "Lite" 106.7 FM. Soon, despite herself, she's actually singing along, and swaying to the beat. As her train pulls in, she digs through her green fanny pack for some change, and drops it in the upside-down baseball cap laying in front of the performer...
...Such excess was more common in the ?80s, ?when Cap Weinberger was steam-shoveling cash into the defense industry,? says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. But even the 70 percent reduction in the defense budget since then hasn?t eliminated the problem. ?When you pay $76 for a screw, someone?s being screwed,? says Thompson, ?and it?s obviously the taxpayer...
Even with all of that, there is a point in the movie where even a perfect world becomes too much too take. Near the end a black man dressed in street clothes, in a skull cap no less, looking like something out of a FuBu ad walks out onto the street and catches a cab in New York City's financial district, in two seconds by simply raising his hand. He didn't even have to lay down in front of the cars or do other passive-aggressive things to get into the cab. Nothing after this was believable, because...
Peter Ueberroth as Man of the Year? Outrageous. Most of the world cannot even spell his name, let alone know him. Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar? Let's vote for Cap Weinberger. He will blow us up and make such further nominations unnecessary. MELVIN M. BELLI SR. San Francisco...