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...Take tobacco-country Republican Mitch McConnell (R-Ky), who wants to cap the fees of trial lawyers who take on tobacco at $250 an hour -- "more than a fair wage," he said. "Let's stop the national lawyers enrichment tour before it starts." This from the head of the Republican fundraising committee, who single-handedly torpedoed campaign finance reform on the grounds that caps on soft-money contributions were unconstitutional. Maybe he's sore that the trial lawyers contribute overwhelmingly to Democrats. Maybe he just doesn't like John McCain...
...prospects for prayer clubs seem unlimited. In fact, the tragic shooting of eight prayer-club members last December in West Paducah, Ky., by 14-year-old Michael Carneal provided the cause with martyrs and produced a hero in prayer-club president Ben Strong, who persuaded Carneal to lay down his gun. Strong recalls that the club's daily meetings used to draw only 35 to 60 students out of Heath High School's 600. "People didn't really look down on us, but I don't know if it was cool to be a Christian," he says...
...kids to get back at the world with live ammunition. Jonesboro's is the fourth student shooting spree on school grounds in the U.S. since February 1997. That was when Evan Ramsey, 16, opened fire in Bethel, Alaska, leaving two dead and two wounded. After Pearl came West Paducah, Ky. Michael Carneal, 14, erupted there in December, killing three students and wounding five. Joseph ("Colt") Todd, 14, an eighth-grader at Stamps High School, killed two fellow students...
...About that new film Primary Colors: I go to the movies to escape from Bill Clinton, not to see him bigger than life!" STEVE DOUGLAS Louisville, Ky...
...This was the third fatal shooting rampage in a school in the southern U.S. within the past five months. In December, a 14-year-old youth opened fire on a student prayer circle in a hallway at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., killing three students; two months earlier in Pearl, Miss., a 16-year-old was accused of killing his mother, then going to school and shooting nine students, killing two of them...