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Aw shoot, they're cute The NRA's flyer at gigantic weapons fest screams: 'Acres of guns! Bring the family!' Among the thousands of guns at NRA firearm sale, Emily Carlson, 4, jumps from her stroller to point out her favorite. MILWAUKEE - The flyer for the 135th annual gathering of the National Rifle Association said to "bring your whole family" to see "acres of the latest guns." And a man behind the registration desk at the exhibition hall on Friday guaranteed this was no exaggeration. "You won't believe it!" he said.  He was right, for to enter the cavernous Midwest...

Now that France has emerged as a leading critic of U.S. policy toward Iraq, a lot of pundits and editorial cartoonists are having a field day lampooning France's ''cowardice'' and proclivity to ''surrender.'' The supposed evidence for this slur is France's defeat in World War II. Why is that, exactly? No one would dream of sneering at Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Norway or any of the other nations overcome by Germany in the war. So what makes France fair game? France's critics need to be aware of some historical facts. At the beginning of World War II, Germany possessed the world's...