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...reference to crime, Silber, who has received the endorsement of the vast majority of police organizations, has advocated a ban on assault weapons and opposed the death penalty, which he believes is racist, except in the most exceptional cases. Weld holds the opposite stance on both issues...
...proposed law would set the state income tax rate on Part B taxable income (in general, earned income) at 4.25 percent for 1991 and 4.625 percent for 1992, except for income from unemployment compensation, alimony, Massachusetts bank interest, rental income, pension and annuity income, and IRA-Keogh deductions, which would be taxed at 5 percent...
...only solace is that nobody--except themselves and me--seems to listen to the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats anyway...
...MISER. Philip Bosco does everything one could ask in the title role of Moliere's satire, except the indispensable: lurch into believable love-struck madness when his cherished cashbox is stolen. Other actors in this Broadway revival swoop and flutter and generally diminish the text, save for splendidly real and moving bits by John Christopher Jones as a long-suffering servant and Adam Redfield as a splenetic...
...joke making the rounds in Prague has a group of people, among them Czechoslovak Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus, asked to identify an upturned bottle top. All except Klaus give the expected answer. The Minister, who proposes radical reforms that would cut deeply into living standards, pauses only briefly before answering: "It's a pan for frying steak...