Word: guns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have called this theory “groundless and false,” and this denial, by a member of the Harvard administration, was taken as a smoking gun that the theory must be true. The thesis was reaffirmed, again without evidence, but with a mention of my failure to provide evidence to refute it—as though there was some epistemological principle that a theory, once posited without foundation, remains true until someone goes to the trouble to produce data to falsify...
...officer last Saturday. Thomas was wanted for 14 misdemeanor violations, most of them small-time traffic charges. His bigger mistake was to run from the police. Surrounded by 12 officers, Thomas was killed by one bullet. The officer who fired, Steven Roach, has said he thought Thomas had a gun...
...homeless mentally ill black woman, was shot by Los Angeles patrolmen in 1998 after she allegedly lunged at them with a screwdriver. Amadou Diallo was the African street vendor at whom four of New York's finest fired 41 shots after they supposedly mistook his wallet for a gun. (The officers were acquitted of murder.) And Timothy Thomas was the unarmed Cincinnati youth whose fatal shooting by police ignited last week's uprising...
...previous albums, DiFranco's songs have been as topical as 60 Minutes segments, touching on gun control, gay rights and abortion. On one new track, Subdivision, she turns the unlikely subject of urban gentrification into a song. But while retaining its social bite, DiFranco's music also displays a growing sense of nuance and texture; she has alchemized her rants into revelations. One of her best new tracks is The Garden of Simple, a wordy, folkie ramble that recounts a series of metaphoric vignettes about freedom. "I actually wrote that one for Prince," says DiFranco. "I just wanted to write...
...Setting priorities and delivering bad news to friends is just a sliver of what Rove does as Bush's top political gun. It was Rove who shaped the agenda, message and strategy that got Bush - the least experienced presidential nominee of modern times - into the White House. Now it is Rove's job to keep him there through 2008. "My job," Rove told TIME last week, "is to pay attention to the things that affect his political future." That's why, in the first week of Bush's presidency, Rove was bringing political advisers from New Hampshire to the White...