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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Blades hopes to foster that support is by founding an independent political party that he says will speak for Panamanians who are not represented by General Manuel Noriega or the current U.S.-backed government. "What I propose is to create what up to this point has been a mythical place: a Latin America that respects and loves itself, is incorruptible, romantic, nationalistic and has a human perception of the needs of the world at large." Blades is traveling to Panama next month to "see the situation for myself" but refuses to predict when he might return there permanently. Says Blades...
...those who did not. "What good are you? You must be dumb," she said to one child who knew nothing about the game Naked Movie Star. MacFarlane recorded stories of children digging up dead bodies at cemeteries, jumping out of airplanes, killing animals with bats. When asked to point out molesters while driving around the city, children fingered community leaders, store clerks and gas-station attendants; one child picked out photos of actor Chuck Norris and Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn...
...cause is neither trendy nor fashionable, but a basic American belief that spans generations. The N.R.A.'s strength has never originated in Washington but instead has reached outward and upward from Biloxi, Albuquerque, Concord, Tampa, Topeka -- from every point on the compass and from communities large and small. Those who fail to grasp this widespread commitment will never understand the depth of political and philosophical dedication symbolized by the letters N.R.A...
Antigun opinion steadfastly ignores these realities known to rank-and-file police officers -- men and women who face crime firsthand, not police administrators who face mayors and editors. These law-enforcement professionals tell us that expecting firearm restrictions to act as crime- prevention measures is wishful thinking. They point out that proposed gun laws would not have stopped heinous crimes committed by the likes of John Hinckley Jr., Patrick Purdy, Laurie Dann or mentally disturbed, usually addicted killers. How can such crimes be used as examples of what gun control could prevent...
...bronze study of a black soldier's head done for the Shaw Memorial in Boston, his greatest public work of art, by Augustus Saint- Gaudens. And there is a great deal of poor to average American 19th century art -- clumsy, cliche ridden, provincial, earnest. But the show's point lies elsewhere: in the subject matter and how it is treated...