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While constitutional arguments against gun control don't seem compelling, more gun laws do seem objectionable on the grounds of pragmatism. They are not accomplishing the goals that prompted more legislation in the first place. We need to use our system's current penalties to show drug dealers and violent criminals that their actions will not be tolerated. Instead, we continue to live in a culture where people just cry out for more and more federal legislation every time the weather changes...
...weekends, when the studious find other sanctuaries, students armed with decks of cards and chips use the long tables to play poker...
...fatal blow--replaced Medicaid coverage for the poor with an inadequate substitute. The plan, says a Gore adviser, let the Vice President move "from the fantasy Bradley to the real Bradley." It also demonstrated a crucial difference between the camps. Bradley advisers told TIME they did not use polls or focus groups to test the plan's appeal or measure its weaknesses; to do so would have been to play old-school politics. But Gore's advisers immediately conducted polls to test their attacks. And Gore was ready to hurl them at Bradley on Oct. 27, when the candidates took...
...from Boiler Room, the new film featuring Ben Affleck as a Gen X stock-scam artist. But according to the feds, the scene is a real-life drama that threatens the 10 million investors expected to have online brokerage accounts by year's end and the millions more who use the Web to make investing decisions...
...somewhere along the Dutch-Belgian border, a quiet region of pig farmers. The setting is rural but not far from the Brussels airport. Manufacturers convert abandoned barns or garden sheds into e factories, which can be filthy. "They've been mixing chemicals in dirty cans I wouldn't even use for garbage," says Charles De Winter, director of the drug section of Belgium's national police force. These mills aren't mom-and-pop setups, at least not anymore. "We're seeing more and more hardened criminals," says Cees van Doorn, a Dutch organized-crime specialist. They are drawn...