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...thing you notice, as the stories unfold, is how the youngest victims of accidental shootings tend to be shot in the head--how natural it is, when you are a child and playing with a loaded gun, to point it at your friend's face and go "boom." At the bustling Washington headquarters for the Million Mom March, the stories--of toddlers caught in a cross fire, grandmothers murdered on vacation, six-year-olds gunned down at school--are as essential to the cause as are the T shirts and the slick website. The Million Mom March could not exist...
...over guns in America highlights the distance between the personal and the political. Women, while telling pollsters that they overwhelmingly favor more controls on guns, have been largely silent on the issue in public. But as each fresh shooting horror is met by the same inaction in Congress, a roiling frustration may be awakening an army of moms who see themselves as outsiders armed only with their clout as voters and agitators. And as politicians stare into the gender divide--polls show that about 72% of women, vs. 22% of men, favor more regulation of firearms--gun control could join...
...light acoustics of Beautiful Creature. The album displays her versatility, moving away from vulnerability, enchantment and curiosity towards strength, assertion and occasional anger. Her lyrics are not wondering, but answering, with little sign of backing down from her claims. On "Road Wrath," Hatfield orders "Give me a reason to gun it." Apparently Juliana's Pony is reason enough, as she slows down just long enough to tear ahead again. Although Beautiful Creature is the most precious half of this double album, Total System Failure will not disappoint, and may even be preferred by some fans of Hatfield's early work...
...realize a common feature - the best Disney movies all have _female_ villains. Everyone remembers Cruela de Vil, the Wicked Queen in Snow White, Ursula the Sea Witch, Maleficent, Madame Medusa - but who remembers the fat guy in Pocohontas, the evil dude in The Aristocats, or any of the various gun-toting hunters? The truth is, the femme fatales are the nastiest, most memorable characters - kids have nightmares about them, adults actually see menace in their evil, they just _last_ longer in the public consciousness. Why? Because the animators have more room to play with perversity. The wicked woman...
...center after a bruising primary season that pushed him further to the right than be might have liked." Even if voters are able to shake off the image of NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre setting up shop in the Oval Office, many Americans - increasingly in favor of gun control in the wake of Columbine and similar incidents - may not be entirely comfortable with the idea of an NRA so confident in its standing in a Bush presidency. And when voters consider that the next president could be responsible for replacing a number of Supreme Court Justices, the implication that...