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...came Patrick Purdy. A year ago last week the deranged welder used a semiautomatic "assault rifle" to spray bullets at an elementary school in Stockton, Calif. When the shooting and screaming had ended, five children lay dead; 29 others and one teacher were injured. For many Americans, a long-held misgiving hardened into a compelling certainty: too much firepower was too easily available. One year later, California and five cities elsewhere have laws restricting or prohibiting weapons like the one Purdy used...
...Daryl Gates of Los Angeles, who liked to urge law- abiding citizens to keep a gun at home. Many Californians needed no such urging. In a 1982 referendum, the state's voters clobbered a ballot measure that would have banned the sale of handguns and required those already held to be registered...
Beanpot Tix: Tickets for this year's Beanpot tournament, which will be held Feb. 5 and 12 at Boston Garden, go on sale today at 9 a.m. at the Harvard ticket office in the basement of Harvard Hall...
Friends of the late Andrei Sakharov held a memorial service for the Nobel laureate earlier this week at Harvard, praising the scientist and humanist for a lifetime that valued ideas above fame...
...service, held 40 days after Sakharov's death in keeping with Russian tradition, was sponsored by Amnesty International at Boylston Hall. Joshua Rubenstein, regional director for the groups noted that the day also marked the 10th anniversary of Sakharov's arrest and exile to Gorky as a political dissident, where he remained for seven years...