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...excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years (1983-96), the incumbents are pussycats. On Sept. 10, the Commonwealth Treasury and Finance Department, under the charter of Budget honesty, released an up-to-date fiscal and economic outlook to assist the parties in making their election pitches and giving voters a true sense of current economic settings. Tax revenues are healthy, due to employment growth and company profits. The major parties may be tempted to send some of the cash surplus (expected...
Luxury quotient: He has built an image--and an industry--around his flinging of bling. Last year he designed an SUV with six TV screens, and his date this past July 4 was an original copy of the Declaration of Independence...
...tall blue screen clogging up his living room. "It was absurd. You just had to look at it and laugh," he says. It was, to put it kindly, not the kind of thing you want a woman to see when she comes over on a first date. "That assumes you have a date," says Conran. "I was working nonstop on this thing." After four years of monklike devotion to the dream of making a Bruckheimer-size sci-fi flick without leaving his apartment, Conran had completed six minutes...
...coalition troops have died in Iraq, and thousands more have been wounded. If you're looking for a more detailed breakdown of these numbers, check out ICASUALTIES.ORG, a website that provides data based on official death counts from coalition countries, including each soldier's name, hometown, unit and date of death. The names of the deceased can be viewed by time period and type of incident...
...upset wins of Paul Keating in 1993 and Steve Bracks in 1999. And I.E.M. traders wrongly predicted in 2000 that Bush would win the popular vote as well as the presidency. In early July, Centrebet manager Gerard Daffy had several calls from people wanting to bet on the date of the election. He didn't open a book "for obvious reasons," he says. If he had, punters would have had another miss: "The date they were looking for was Sept...