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...Fred the Baker may be at the threshhold of his restful years, but his retirement yesterday caused anything but relaxation for Dunkin' Donuts employees across the country...
...Fred Lynn, he of the .250 average, opened the scoring in the bottom of the second inning. With two men out and George Scott on first, Lynn lofted a 3-2 Mike Torrez delivery to deep center, where it bounced off the wall and Mickey Rivers's nose to drive in Scott...
...company, hit the trifecta, bringing cash to the firm, funds to the Clinton-Gore campaign and special financial rewards to Knight. It was a dicey political mixture that landed him in the sights of not only the Justice Department but also Representative Tom Bliley's Commerce Committee and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee, which will take his deposition this week...
Forget about Fred Thompson's pedestrian hearings. The real fireworks will start Tuesday, when the Senate Finance Committee turns its attention to the IRS. The probable highlight of this week: Cloaked in black hoods (no, really), IRS agents are expected to testify that the agency routinely abuses and mistreats taxpayers. Nearly 42 percent of the $13.2 billion in penalties that the IRS assessed against taxpayers last year was wiped off the books after corporations and individuals challenged the levies as excessive or unnecessary, leaving the revenue boys with some explaining...
...demonstration than an investigation. Roger Tamraz is a case in point. The story of how the palm-greasing oil tycoon made it into the inner chambers of the White House has been known among investigators and journalists since March. It is just now coming to the screen, where Fred Thompson massages witnesses for the best sound bites and head shots, so as to maybe ? just maybe ? get regular people interested. And the wisecracking, straight-shooting Tamraz certainly gave it his all. But Thompson may find the unctuous tycoon to be a little too colorful: Tamraz is wanted in Lebanon...