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Even bigger losses are thought to result because money is diverted from productive investment and paid to lawyers and accountants who hunt for ways to escape or minimize the tax. The heirs to enormous fortunes, of course, can do this better than nonplutocrats. And so the tax has never broken up concentrations of wealth the way the legislators who enacted it in 1916 hoped it would...
...infrequent calendrical events: overblown and unsatisfying in equal proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th anniversary of Woodstock or the death of Jackie O., you'll love 2000. Merchandisers are horning in too: La-Z-Boy offers Millennia office chairs (the "tie-in," a La-Z-Boy executive offers, is that the chairs have "a very contemporary look"), while Elizabeth...
...selection committee included Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, vocal coach and voice teacher Bonnie Raphael, Quincy House Master Michael Shinagel and Professor of Greek and Latin Richard F. Thomas...
...CANDIDATE] FRED THOMPSON TENNESSEE SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] His $6.5 million request to investigate 1996 campaign abuses [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] No longer a jinx against movie stars in the White House [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] John Wayne [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] That guy in The Hunt for Red October
...have a lot of potential," Feeney said. "We're in the hunt...