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...Bush's Texas record may bedevil him as he tries to reach for moderates and independents who approve of some gun control. In 1995 he touted the signing of a law that allowed Texans to carry concealed handguns. That Bush welcomed top N.R.A officials to the signing ceremony will not escape Democratic operatives, nor will stories of guns in Texas churches and metal detectors installed in amusement parks under Bush's tenure. Bush also made it harder for localities to sue gun manufacturers. He said the measure curbed frivolous lawsuits. Opponents called it the "N.R.A protection act" and noted that...
...little interest in stardom. "If it happens, great, but if it doesn't happen, I'm not depending my life on it." She wears her celebrity sufficiently loosely that as the interview ends, she even lets her real age slip out. (Sorry-it was off the record...
...show it to me right now?" Ebert, still in his coat, asked as two of the aliens thrust speakers on either side of his face. They started the trailer, but Ebert was far more concerned with the dwindling battery power of the digital camera he was using to record this spectacle for his own website. Finally, mercifully, the trailer ended. Ebert congratulated the happy aliens, who spent the next 15 minutes beaming. "This is a new high," Ebert said under his breath as he walked away...
...Internet is great not only for distributing homemade digital entertainment. It's also increasingly being used for swapping and swiping products, especially music, made by major artists and studios. By now, the long-running legal battle between the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA)--representing the traditional recording industry--and the millions of college kids downloading free jams over the Net has begun to resemble those chewing-gum commercials where fusty geezers shake their canes at crazy kids and their "flavor crystals." The latest twist in this saga of college kids ignoring their elders, not to mention copyright...
Kathy Fisher and her husband Ron Wasserman, a pop duo that calls itself Fisher, were just another band on the verge. Their once promising talks with record labels had petered out. An appearance at the Lilith Fair came to nothing. The truth is, they were reduced to supporting themselves playing L.A. club gigs and writing jingles for Hyundai...