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...check at the store. He just presented three forms of ID, including a Virginia driver's license, and paid $571 for the gun and a box of 50 9-mm rounds. Employees viewed Cho as "about as clean-cut a kid as you'd ever want to see," says proprietor John Markell. "It was a very unremarkable sale." Cho had obtained the other gun, a Walther P22, in February from a pawn shop near campus. Both are high-quality, accurate guns, easy to load, quick to fire if you know what you're doing...
...recently, when he said in an Associated Press interview that perhaps the best course of action was to "keep the President on a shorter leash"-that is, approve funding but limit the funds, forcing Bush to keep coming back for money. This unleashed the ire of Markos Moulitsas Z?niga, proprietor of the Daily Kos blog, who wrote with typical restraint, "What a ridiculous thing to say. Not only is it bad policy, not only is it bad politics, it's also a terrible negotiating approach. Instead of threatening Bush with even more restrictions and daring him to veto funding...
...John Markell, 58, the proprietor of Roanoke Firearms, about 30 miles away from the Virginia Tech campus, says that his employees perceived Seung-Hui Cho as "about as clean-cut a kid as you'd want to see" when he showed up at the shop in early March...
...Street in Manhattan's East Village, and my walk took me along 14th Street past a prime grind house, the Metropolitan Theatre - or rather past the hole in the ground where the Metropolitan once stood. There used to be a film stills shop next door: Movie Star News, whose proprietor, Irving Klaw, supplemented his income by making and selling films of bondage princess Bettie Page...
Oscar Wilde was dying - and broke. the declining writer was taken in by the proprietor of the Hôtel d'Alsace in Paris' Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood, who tried to make him comfortable, plied him with Courvoisier and tolerated his snowballing bill. But Wilde still didn't spare his room's decor; he wryly observed that "my wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." The wallpaper won that battle - Wilde died a month later of meningitis, on Nov. 30, 1900 - but it didn...