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Bush's moves to the middle have seemed wobbly. He has said he would sign a bill that mandates safety locks but would not push for one. He supports imposing background checks on weapons sold at gun shows but ducks the contentious issue of how long such checks should take. He says he likes Pataki's proposals to ban assault weapons and track new guns by their ballistic fingerprints, but he has not rushed to give the package his full support...
Congress is also not in a hurry to reconcile the House and Senate versions of last year's gun provisions in the juvenile-justice crime bill. Both parties have internal divisions on the gun issue. There are plenty of pro-N.R.A Democrats, mostly from Southern states, and gun-controlling Republicans in Northern pockets. Even G.O.P. House leaders are split. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Conference Chair J.C. Watts favor movement toward reform, while majority whip Tom DeLay and majority leader Dick Armey stay hostile to any such legislation. Some Democrats may want the gun-control issue more than they want...
...GUN Most of China's warplanes are old Soviet knockoffs. While Beijing has several dozen modern Su-27 fighters, they could be overwhelmed by Taiwan's Western-supplied and well-armed air force. And Taiwanese planes have a key advantage: they would be guided by U.S.-built E-2 radar planes. EDGE Taiwan...
...about five a day. With 500 movies on the site, iFilm can boast at least one breakthrough. Dave Garrett and Jason Ward made the nine-minute "comedy" Sunday's Game, in which five old ladies gather around a bridge table and gab about their infirmities while passing around a gun in a game of Russian roulette that gets funnier and funnier as the blood stains more and more of the tablecloth. Last month they got a TV development deal from Fox. This is what happens when you people refuse to watch that half-hour version of Ally McBeal...
...more than 50 online competitors are eyeing the one place we, the most overentertained culture ever, are still bored: the office. Likewise the producers Brillstein-Grey and 3 Arts are set to roll out Z.com a site that has signed Oliver Stone (Nixon, J.F.K.), producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Top Gun) and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (Magic Johnson). Among Z.com's acquisitions is a six-minute pilot for a claymation series called Rotten Fruit, about an English band whose members curse at one another. You don't need much of an idea for a six-minute show. But for that...