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...accelerating criminal violence and a sense that as the social contract tatters, the good guys must have their guns to defend themselves against the rising tribes of bad guys. It is very hard to persuade the good guys that all those guns in their hands wind up doing more lethal harm to their own kind than to the animals they fear; that good guys sometimes get drunk and shoot other good guys in a rage, or blow their own heads off (by design or accident) or hit their own children by mistake. Most murders are done on impulse, and handguns...
...Bailou Rugby club, reputedly the best team in the islands. Highlights of the trip included ROY ROBERTS's esteemed crap-shooting at the Casino. (Incidentally, well-informed rumor has it that every member of the squad lost money at the tables.) Bott reports that Roberts managed to consume 25 lethal-sounding Bahama-Mama cocktails and flirt with every bunay at the Playboy Club. JOHN DORGAN spent the least nights at the team's guest house, preferring to spend his evenings on the beach under the moonlight... The rugby team also went cultural, with two team members invited to play their...
...wanted here; these are no common killings. But then, this is no ordinary investigator. Son of an embittered general, indifferent party member, all too aware of disparities in Soviet society, he runs contrary to official wishes, pursuing his quarry through Politburo corridors and down provincial streets. It is a lethal quest. The three corpses are soon joined by others, some innocent, some who seem to have tumbled from Stalin's overcoat...
...Austrian man of letters Arthur Schnitzler instructed that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of his death. As a novelist, short-story writer and playwright, best known for La Ronde, he had already probed the heart of the Viennese haute bourgeoisie with the lethal needle of wit, irony and skepticism, and pronounced it irrevocably dead...
SLAVERY, its immorality and its legacy, shape and constrain the image of America's most lethal conflict--its Civil War. Yet the Civil War served as more than the military midwife to abolition...