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...outside plants and work sites, with a lot of one-on-one contact, a lot of phone calls, weekend walks where union members go door-to-door in their communities." The National Rifle Association is buying subscriber lists to sporting magazines, names of people who have sold firearms at gun shows and other information to produce a database that goes beyond its 4 million members. The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League boasts it has the names of 2.1 million Republican, independent and occasionally Democratic pro-choice voters - some of whom will be hearing from N.A.R.A.L. seven times between...
...Ronnie had a weird natural vibrato - almost a tremolo, really - that modulated her little-girl timbre into something that penetrated the Wall of Sound like a nail gun. It is an uncanny instrument. Sitting on a ragged couch in my railroad flat, I could hear her through all the arguments on the street, the car alarms, the sirens. She floated above the sound of New York while also being a part of it - a Bronx-born Latina stomping her foot on the sidewalk and insisting on being heard...
...tagline for The Contender reads, "Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot." President Clinton may not have fired a gun and he may not have crushed an aspiring politician, but he did disgrace the nation and, frankly, massacre the virtue and the dignity of the Oval Office. May the next President of the United States serve our country well as a model leader and, more importantly, a model citizen...
...almost visibly holding back through the first 45 minutes, finally sunk his teeth into the exchange, effectively grilling Bush on failed attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Texas and managing to paint himself as an ally of both Cheney and Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well, pushing for stricter enforcement of current laws and returning again to his mantra of local control, implicating Gore as the defender of big, intrusive...
...police. It?s a sign that no matter what his intention, the failures of the peace process and the rising tide of conflict may leave the Palestinian leader unable to impose the terms of any new agreement on his enraged population. Then again, as Israeli tanks and helicopter gun-ships pounded Ramallah and Gaza, reviving the peace process seemed to be the last thing on anybody?s agenda...