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Every new school shooting sets off a new debate over gun control. Pundits and educators get a few precious minutes on the national stage, hyping their points of view. And then, before anything substantive happens, the debate fades away...
...Bush's domestic politics also seem foreign in Europe-and in leading an alliance by persuasion and example, that hurts. Eleven out of 15 E.U. governments are leftist, "with very social preoccupations," says a senior French diplomat. There are conservatives in Europe too, but Bush's opposition to gun control, enthusiasm for genetic engineering and especially for the death penalty (it's banned in the E.U., but Bush as governor presided over more than 140 executions) are out of sync with the the thinking of many European governments. "Europeans were already worried about the cultural gap between them...
...African-American speeder wouldn't sit still and be beaten b) $58,000 seemed a little high c) other cops call him "Li'l Sipowicz" d) his gun holster caused hip pain...
Sometimes too hard. In one early-career incident, he tapped and spun the car of dirt-track driver Stick Elliot. The word went out that Stick's mechanic had a gun and was looking for Ironhead. The grease monkey didn't find him, and the racer who would soon be known by a second sobriquet, the Intimidator, drove off to greater glory. Earnhardt was NASCAR's rookie of the year in 1979 and won the season-long title in 1980. Even critics of his aggressive tactics acknowledged that in Earnhardt, NASCAR had as talented a driver as it had ever...
Meanwhile, Arafat's personal Force 17 commando group has taken control of the streets after fresh rumblings of discontent. Recently, an angry mob besieged a police station and set free a youth arrested by one of Arafat's officers for gun running. With each passing day the intifadeh becomes more of a guerrilla war, including armed attacks by Arafat's security men working underground. Last week in Gaza, as Sharon forged a unity government with Barak, Israel assassinated a Force 17 commander, alleging he attacked a Jewish settlement. The following day, a Gaza bus driver in Israel killed eight Israelis...