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...street with his lights off. Witnesses describe an altercation after Cook resisted Faulkner. Abu-Jamal, who was driving a cab and happened upon the scene, traded gunfire with Faulkner. When police arrived, Abu-Jamal was on the pavement with a bullet in his chest, his shoulder holster empty. A gun registered to him was a few feet away, with five empty chambers. Faulkner, on his back nearby, was all but gone. Four witnesses had seen all or part of the shooting and three implicated Abu-Jamal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Wrong Guy, Good Cause | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...hundred of these digital pages between covers, and you have a book that can change its content yet still be read like a book. You turn the pages (a way to navigate through text that is hard to improve), and when you are finished, you slap it into a holster to fill it with another text. The ordinary reader might have a collection of several dozen leatherbound and different-size book containers, ones that mold themselves to the reader's hands and habits over many readings. "This story is formatted to be viewed on an oversize L book," it says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Still Turn Pages? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...purchasing some bullets and receiving the appropriate eye and ear protection, we made our way though a set of double doors and into the range. There were about three people shooting when we entered. One was a middle-aged man who was shooting an automatic handgun while wearing a holster with two guns strapped to his waist. The others were a younger couple in their mid-twenties, who must have been on a date, as the guy was “helping” the girl...

Author: By Nick Hobbs, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Guns Don't Kill People | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...that you have a girl that can't read nor write so you can't get letters from her." Such comments do not deflect Hemingway's attention from Debba's charms: "When we rode together in the front seat she liked to feel the embossing on the old leather holster of my pistol. It was a flowered design and very worn and old and she would trace the design very carefully with her fingers and then take her hand away and press the pistol and its holster close against her thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where's Papa? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

While Harvard may have one less bullet in the holster on offense this weekend, the Crimson defense will have to contend with some of the ECAC's most potent firepower...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Attempts to Hang on to Playoff Spot | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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