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...checks for gun sales. Polls indicate that more people favor stronger gun control and that more are willing to make it a voting issue in the coming elections. But the atmosphere in the Republican Congress remains inhospitable to any effective bill. A proposal to have background checks for a mere three business days barely passed the Senate last year after the killings at Columbine. The day after the President appeared on Today, a representative of the National Rifle Association repeated the equally true and irrelevant argument that what happened in Michigan was the fault of parents, not guns...
...confessional--and so untrustworthy. Perhaps no artist in history has told his viewers more about his secret life; certainly none invented more about it. It still seems pretty weird, that inventory of impotence and aggression, of bizarre terrors and fetishes. But in the '20s and '30s it was beyond mere weirdness. Dali must have enjoyed the worst relations with his father of anyone else since little Oedipus. In 1930 his parent wrote a frantic letter to Dali's friend, film director Luis Bunuel, begging him to prevent the artist's coming anywhere near him: "My son has no right...
...present, the population of China is approximately 1,250,000,000 and the number of Mormons worldwide is a mere 10,500,000. Assume, however, that China's communist cadres continue their country's policy of zero population growth while The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps garnering converts and encouraging large families to the tune of, say, five percent expansion a year. By 2099, Mormons will outnumber Chinese by a healthy margin of 65,012,578 men, women and children...
Iowa? Michigan? Mere warm-ups for a national primary on March 7 that stretches from New York to California. With different rules in each state, Bush and McCain face 11 grueling rounds that Tuesday, with 554 of the 2,066 G.O.P. delegates at stake...
Underlying this silly "two-in-one-flesh" argument, however, is a more troubling notion--the idea that the feelings of same-sex couples are somehow inferior to those experienced by heterosexual couples, mere imperfect replicas of "real" love. Yet, the emotional intimacy between two men or two women can be just as real, and felt just as strongly, as that between a man and a woman. It's sad that people like Moschella won't acknowledge that...