[PEN-L:9740] shoot the moon

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from "Today's Papers," in SLATE, 7/30/99:
>The shooter [in Atlanta] was a chemist-turned-day-trader who had
reportedly run up some big losses, although the coverage points out that
the murders of his wife and children preceded by at least a day Thursday's
big market downturn. The LA [TIMES] points out that the rampage combines
two of the year's biggest phenomena--mass shootings and the stock market
boom. The [Washington POST] trots out a quotation it got earlier in the
year from the head of one of the investment firms where killings took
place, in which he compares day-trading to firing a high-powered rifle: "If
you use it right, you will be able to hunt effectively and bring down nice
buck. But if you don't know what you're doing, you'll probably blow your
head off." <

Also in the the same column: >The NY [TIMES] reports that immediately after
last summer's terrorist bombing of two American embassies in Africa, the
government of Sudan detained two suspects, only to angrily release them
after the U.S. conducted a cruise missile strikeagainst an alleged chemical
weapons facility in Sudan. Also, the paper says, Sudanese officials claim
that the U.S. ignored their message that they had suspects in the case in
custody. The NYT says that Sudan's notification has been confirmed by some
American officials. <

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