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...Porter Square also boasts Boston Bed and Bath, where you can pick up a compact summer folding chair for under $15, perfect for those balmy days in the Yard. For those with less stringent budgets, Pier 1 Imports is located just upstairs...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 sends a second letter on the College's alcohol policy to undergraduates, signaling the University's more stringent regulation of student drinking. An initial letter on the subject went out over the summer...
...control a House Republican aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats fear majority leader Dick Armey and whip Tom DeLay will work to declaw any final legislation. So Democrats have...
...prattle about how to sensitize parents, teachers and school counselors to the warning signals of impending mass killings by ticked-off teenagers with easy access to assault weapons. Do what the rest of us have done after similar massacres in Canada, Britain and New Zealand: immediately pass stringent gun-control laws. Trust us, it works. Just do it. MERLIE PAPADOPOULLOS Montreal...
...bill would close a major loophole which had allowed juveniles to buy the weapons used in the Littleton shooting. Unfortunately, the G.O.P. measure was not as stringent as the one proposed a day earlier by the Democrats. But it was better than nothing coming from a party which had previously done little more than pay lip service to gun control. The measure is now tied up in the House, where Speaker Dennis J. Hastert (R-III.) has delayed a vote. Hopefully, House Republican efforts to water-down the bill will fail when Hastert allows it to come to a vote...