Word: stoddard
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While waiting to see a financial consultant on Park Avenue, Dr. Ruth Stoddard Long, 63, a New York ophthalmologist, makes no bones about where she stands. "I'm for it absolutely," she says. "The upper middle class pays a lot of dues. If they get a little break, what's the big deal?" Supporters of the change say lower rates would encourage more investment and spur greater turnover of holdings, thus leading to increased tax revenues. "More people would sell assets, and the U.S. Treasury would collect more taxes," says Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies at the conservative...
Sources give conflicting accounts of what has happened in the case since the summer. Court documents obtained by The Crimson indicate that Rooney--accompanied by Roger Stoddard, curator of the Harvard College Library Rare Book Collection--returned to Cole's home with a search warrant. Neither Rooney nor Stoddard will comment on the investigation, and Chief Johnson says the probe remains open. But Shapiro, Cole's attorney, says that, as far as he knows, "that matter is closed...
Havel reads extremely well in translation, and neither Tom Stoddard's English version nor Rouse's production lose the author's nascent sarcasm. Fraught with cliche, the play seems to make fun of the postmodern genre it places itself in; in Rouse's interpretation, the language surfaces with such hollow force that we can easily imagine that Leopold's books must read like the non sensical phrases of the artist/critic Mark Tansey's "Wheel...
...Stoddard, like most of Washington's Nunn-watchers, was assuming that the Senator was putting the finishing touches on a work that was his -- and the Joint Chiefs' -- in all but name. The hearings were seen as Nunn's attempt to trim down the thin veneer of political correctness the President had added to the policy in order to claim an "honorable compromise." As irritated as Nunn might be at Clinton's admittedly tortured distinctions between gay "orientation" (to be tolerated) and gay "conduct" (grounds for dismissal), the betting was that he would merely badger Defense Secretary Les Aspin...
...chagrin Nunn's revision caused Clinton, who endorsed it later on Friday, it made little difference to the future hopes and strategies of Stoddard and his allies, which are firmly -- if perhaps vainly -- pinned to the court system...