In Quotes...

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"If the gun manufacturer doesn't use existing safety technologies
and somebody is hurt by that gun, the gun manufacturer ought to
be liable."
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     Steve Teret, director of the Hopkins Center for Gun Policy
and Research, on WMAR's 5 p.m. newscast on Jan. 22, on efforts to
develop a safer gun.


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"I've never been more honored by a commission."
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     Peabody director Robert Sirota, in the Jan. 17 Baltimore
Messenger, on being asked by his son Jonah to compose a work for
his senior viola recital at the Juilliard School of Music.


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"We've missed the opportunity to hear the prodigy of the
century."
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     History professor Michael P. Johnson, in the Jan. 8
Baltimore Sun, on missing the performance at the Meyerhoff 
Symphony Hall of Russian wunderkind pianist Evgeny Kissin because
of the blizzard.


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"This administration is a champion of wrongdoing. They ... are so
relentless in their efforts to cover up that you think there must
be many bodies buried somewhere."
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     Political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg, in the Jan. 7
Baltimore Sun, on the Clinton administration's Whitewater and
travel office scandals.