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Early Friday morning members of the Harvard Lampoon commenced a five-day isolation experiment scheduled to end this morning...
Miller's monologues teem with outre literary and pop-culture references, but he apportions them cannily. The Brady Bill, he scoffs, is a weak crime- fighting gesture: "A five-day waiting period to get a handgun -- you have to get on a longer waiting list than that to buy Aladdin at Blockbuster." And his jeremiads are filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally...
UGLY: But wait, there's more. Reds outfielder Reggie Sanders has just been given a justly-deserved five-day suspension for charging the mound after being hit by a pitch of the Expos' Pedro Martinez...
After a dramatic five-day pursuit, Russian security forces captured four masked gunmen who kidnapped 11 students, a teacher and a bus driver from their school at Rostov-on-Don. The kidnappers, who collected from the Russian government a ransom of $10 million in U.S. currency, forced two military pilots to fly them in a helicopter to the Caucasus Mountains. Using a massive, special forces-style operation to track the kidnappers, authorities captured all four of them and recovered most of the ransom...
After Congress passed the Brady Bill three weeks ago, mandating a five-day waiting period on handgun sales, gun shops saw their business jump dramatically. Semiautomatic weapons with large magazines are selling especially fast in anticipation of expanded congressional restrictions. "Brady law? It's a piece of trash," says Lyle Teague, a self-styled arms merchant at the Saxet Gun Show in San Antonio, Texas. "But you want to know something? It's doing wonders for my business." Dealers at the vast Texas flea market posted signs warning, LAST CHANCE TO STOCK UP and THESE GUNS ARE IN THE SENATE...