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...industry, these suits defy established law and basic fairness. Guns are legal to manufacture and safe when used properly. It isn't their fault, the manufacturers say, that criminals buy their products and use them to shoot people. "You don't sue General Motors when someone drives drunk and hurts someone," says Smith & Wesson lawyer Anne Kimball. The gun manufacturers say that going after them distracts from the real problems: crime and social breakdown...
...unloaded his weapon into her. It was around 6 p.m., and Kip presumably stayed with the bodies the rest of the night (and took in South Park, the episode in which Kenny falls into a grave and gets squashed by a tombstone). At some point, Kip apparently decided to shoot up his high school in the morning. What exactly did he think about in the darkness, as his parents' remains grew cold? To know is surely to see the face of Satan...
...Heaven--he doesn't just challenge stereotypes, he pokes fun at them. In his tale of two young dudes who leave "the rez" on a road trip of personal enlightenment, the characters ruminate about everything from Dances with Wolves to a native staple known as fry bread. They also shoot hoops, eat at Denny's and conjure mystical visions. "Sure we have different specific cultural customs," says Alexie, "but we also read Stephen King and watch ER like everyone else...
...long road from that disillusion, and near the rock bottom that alcoholics talk of having to hit, Lorian was up in Michigan on the Big Two-Hearted River, the subject of a photo shoot. Never mind that Ernest had actually fished the nearby Fox River, which had more trout, and merely used the Big Two-Hearted name because he liked it. Her difficulty was that she was drinking 32 cans of beer a day. An old, reformed alcoholic camped nearby told her she needed help, and that the truth hurts...
...their opponents want to do; by playing brilliant, aggressive defense; and then, when they have done that, when their opponents are floundering because what worked all season long no longer works, the Bulls have slowly and systematically begun to exert their own will. Thus their big games were rarely shoot-outs. Nor were they always artistic, or if they were artistic, it was only for those fans who loved the concept of skilled, highly intelligent players' stealing another team's game in front of a national audience. In these big games, even when Jordan and Pippen were not shooting well...