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Students who stay awake until dawn may soon be doing so far reasons other than writing papers or studying for exams...
...genial and bespectacled, Forbes looks like an owl surprised at midday. But he feels his strength is as the strength of ten, for his ideas are pure: supply-side Republicanism, from the dawn of the Reagan era. Forbes believes the nation's major problems can be solved simply, with a flat tax allowing few deductions and a stable monetary system tethered to the price of gold. The present tax code, he says, is "a source of political pollution. If you don't clear it out, the weeds will grow back again." And if a new tax system throws revenue projections...
...publisher of the Weekly Standard, a conservative review of politics that he founded with John Podhoretz (son of noted neocon Norman) and Fred Barnes (ex of the New Republic) with financing from Rupert Murdoch. Let George bill itself hopefully as "post partisan.'' At the Standard it's the dawn of a postliberal age, for which they would provide a forum and rumpus room, a place where conservatives could not only cackle over the death throes of the left but spat among themselves as well...
...Tarantino's Pulp Fiction--the first independent film to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office--will midwife plenty of melodramas with Tarantino's signature plot: men in groups and on a heist, talking until the dark night of the soul gives way to a red dawn...
...assault began at dawn on Aug. 4 with a bombardment of the Krajina Serbs' capital, Knin. When more than 100,000 Croatian troops attacked, the Serb army of some 50,000 men seemed simply to melt away. Croatians shelled cities and towns, harassed civilians and engaged in an orgy of looting and burning of Serb homes. "You're not going to see anything like what the Bosnian Serbs are doing, massacres of 3,000 people and such," said one U.N. official. "But it is still bad." Many Serbs still carry memories of the massacres their parents and relatives suffered...