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...That's true of the gun control question, too. Now, I wonder, sitting on the edge of my bed, will Gore wallop Bush on Texas's concealed weapons law? The swing states of Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin are pretty pro-gun in their cultures. But they don't have anything like Texas's take-a-gun-to-church concealed weapons law that Bush signed. It's a winner but NOOOOOOOOOOOO... Gore blows it off to go back and talk about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground...
...time to confront their colonial past. Look to Cathy, they said. Freeman accepted the responsibility. One way to consider it is, while Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of Nike Inc., Freeman's crusade had become cosmic. Even before the gun went off, hers had become the most significant race, in a political sense, since Jesse Owens shredded Adolf Hitler's Aryan showcase at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin...
Freeman came out in a full-body track suit and kept licking her lips to find moisture that could not be found. She took her stance. The gun sounded. She got a fair start, but was clearly behind. She went into the far turn gaining but came out of the near turn still trailing Jamaica's Lorraine Graham. Flashbulbs sparked the tension; the stadium was a live wire. In the stretch, Freeman finally caught Graham, then strode ahead, the noise rising as her lead lengthened, and exploding as she crossed the line first...
...clear things up with a quick-and-dirty look at where Al Gore and George W. Bush stand on the subjects that voters say matter: Abortion Campaign Finance Reform Death Penalty Education Environment Foreign Policy Gun Control Health Care National Security The Surplus Launch The Issues tool...
...late 80s and early 90s, figures were astronomical for youths being shot and killed," said Marci L. Feldman, assistant to Prothrow-Stith. By 1999, Feldman added, "Boston had gone three years without a child under 16 being involved in a gun death...