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There's no question that Bush's tax cuts would be easier for families to claim: everybody's basic rate would be 3% to 7% lower, so less money would come out of each paycheck. It's that simple. But Bush does nothing for the millions of poorer people who do not pay taxes because their incomes are so low. Under current tax law, a family of four doesn't owe taxes until it earns $24,900. Bush's plan doesn't try to help them make ends meet...
What Annan proposes is nothing less than a world filled with dignified people. A world where Sierra Leonean rebels would have enough innate dignity to not chop off the arms of infant girls. A planet where India and Pakistan would be dignified enough not to blow up each other, where the indignities of chemical weapons would be a thing of the past, where the world's rich would be, yes, dignified enough to worry about the millions of Africans who will die of AIDS in the next two decades. This is the kind of world Annan imagines...
...hocery that so often cripples good intentions. He envisions a time when countries will be eager to have their troops serve. His sales pitch is simple: U.N. operations are the best preview of the kinds of battles countries are likely to face in the future, conflicts that are less state vs. state and more state vs. maniac. "During the cold war, conflicts were neater," he explains. "You had client states [that] could be controlled. Here you are dealing with warlords who don't understand the outside world and don't care. Unless we are prepared to counter force with force...
...joint venture with Greenlight.com Customers can now order an Audi or a Chevy alongside electric drills and Oprah books. And it doesn't stop there. This week Amazon is set to open its Paris-based online store, Amazon.fr, a brave bid to raise international sales despite the fact that less than 1% of book sales in France are done online--and not for want of dotcoms...
...sudden collapse and bankruptcy of Living.com which promised Amazon $145 million to be its home-furnishings partner over the next five years, hasn't calmed investors' nerves (none of that cash ever made it to Amazon's coffers). Last week it emerged that Amazon has had to rearrange terms, less favorably, with other partners such as Drugstore.com...