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The single greatest imponderable in the crime debate is the role of gun control. Or decontrol: last week Texas became the 28th state to allow people to carry concealed weapons. The rationale is to discourage crime--supporters say felons will think twice about assaulting people who may be armed. Florida...
Lying awake nights sweating over Elizabeth Berkley's career? Relax. The Showgirls star is playing GOLDIE HAWN's husband's mistress in The First Wives Club. "We have to afford people some mistakes," says Hawn of Berkley. "She's a lovely girl." The sisterly goodwill has apparently spread to the...
I am also under the impression that the Autobahn curves every 50 miles or so. Again, this is not true for many Western roads. This makes high speeds a lot safer than they sound at first. Yes, people are driving 80 mph. But they are driving 80 mph on roads...
All that changed in 1986, when Gingrich took over as general chairman of GOPAC, the machinery created in 1979 to help get Republicans into state and local office. He made himself available to G.O.P. candidates in weekly conference calls, mailing them his audiotapes and appearing in person in their districts...
The same tactics worked on allies outside the House, particularly the lobbyists who had bankrolled the revolution and expected to be rewarded for it. The National Rifle Association, for instance, contributed $1,442,519 to Republicans in the last election cycle. But when they pushed last spring for an early...