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...Joel Stein...
...Washington has its way, much worse could be coming. The tax bill being fashioned between Congress and the White House will bury much of what remains of the 1986 simplification. The proposed changes are "clearly a step back in terms of complexity," says Joel Slemrod, a tax expert at the University of Michigan. "It is antithetical to the spirit of the 1986 tax reform." Not only is the bill that's shaping up likely to make life more confusing for taxpayers, it's also unlikely to make good on promises to encourage investment and savings or to put more kids...
...beyond the borders of their country be followed by a fiscal juggernaut that will make the church as respected a presence in Brazil or the Philippines as it is in Utah, Colorado or, for that matter, America as a whole? Assessing the church's efforts at overseas expansion, author Joel Kotkin has written that "given the scale of the current religious revival combined with the formidable organizational resources of the church, the Mormons could well emerge as the next great global tribe, fulfilling, as they believe, the prophecies of ancient and modern prophets...
Which is almost possible. I asked Sharam Sasson, 42, president and CEO of @Large Software, if he knew who Trent Lott is. Sasson, a highly educated, thoughtful and articulate research engineer, born in Iran but now an American citizen, said, "I don't know him." I also asked Joel Bellenson, the 32-year-old CEO of Pangea Systems, a 1991 biotech start-up. A few years and a few moves further along than @Large (though still, shall we say, preprofitable), Pangea is recently installed in a glamorous office overlooking a lake in downtown Oakland. Bellenson, who says he subscribes...
...Other Beltway's language does have the edge in one respect: informality. I felt no qualm about E-mailing "Hi Joel" to someone I had never met. ("Hi Jon," I E-mailed to Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley when he announced that he'd gone online, adding helpfully, "This is the proper form of salutation in cyberspace." Yardley answered, jokingly, "Dear Mr. Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality...