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Since early 1992, almost 200 people have been killed in the Muslim fundamentalists' campaign against the government. The targets for their bullets and bombs have shifted from Muslim opinion leaders who frown on fundamentalism to Christian Copts, foreign tourists and police officers. No matter whom they shoot at, their long-term aim remains constant: to topple Mubarak and install a purely Islamic anti-Western government, complete with such harsh traditional punishments as beheading and limb amputation...
Although Ferguson will try to shoot down the deal, the AT&T-McCaw merger looks as if it may fly. While the Justice Department has yet to give the two companies the go-ahead, the FCC has in the past looked favorably at such transactions. If the agency does not approve, it can expect to be swiftly inundated with demands from the rest of the industry to be saved from the competitive behemoth that technology has spawned...
...clinical psychologist at the University of Virginia. "I don't care what the network executives say. It does desensitize you." Others point accusingly at the media. "Every crackpot out there knows that if he can take an automatic weapon into a fast-food restaurant, the more people he can shoot, the more attention he's going to get," says Houston homicide sergeant Billy Belk. "So it encourages these weirdos...
...character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times, then I kick-box your ugly face...
...semiautomatic, though inaccurate, are cheap, terrifying, easily hidden and handily converted to automatic. Sales have soared since 1989, when President Bush banned the import of semiautomatic assault rifles such as the Chinese-made AK-47 knock-off used by a deranged gunman to shoot schoolchildren in Stockton, California...