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Recently, President George W. Bush dusted off one of the lesser-known items in his campaign platform: a new tax on lawyer's fees. Modeled on the "excess benefit" taxes for executives of non-profits, the proposal would tax lawyers' fees at a rate substantially higher than the standard income tax whenever the fees are paid by a state or local government and the fee is above a "reasonable amount." The lawyer tax has been a popular idea in Republican circles for years--Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) made a similar proposal in 1998--and was part of Bush...
While one man (Soderdergh) was nominated for two films, one film (Crouching Tiger) was nominated as Best Film twice?once in the main category, the other in the Foreign Language Film niche. Ang Lee's Mandarin masterpiece of martial artistry (officially a Taiwanese entry) will win the "lesser" prize, the one in which films from every country but the U.S. compete as equal. The movie is something of a critical and popular phenomenon in North America; it is already the all-time top-grossing foreign language film, with $60 million in the till so far and hopes of reaching...
...Then Monday dawned and the paper hit the stands. The news was bad for the optimists, and, to a lesser extent, for Al Gore. After two months of work, the data were conflicting at best...
...Klerk was the leader of the political party that had declared me, and millions of Blacks, Coloreds, Indians and Chinese, of lesser value because we represented a different culture and ethnicity than the White community. He spoke of the dangers of majority rule, even if gained legitimately through a democratic election. He warned of the prospect of exclusion and the need for minority protection, of the danger of affirmative action becoming a form of discrimination...
...developed world is largely silent too. AIDS in Africa has never commanded the full-bore response the West has brought to other, sometimes lesser, travails. We pay sporadic attention, turning on the spotlight when an international conference occurs, then turning it off. Good-hearted donors donate; governments acknowledge that more needs to be done. But think how different the effort would be if what is happening here were happening in the West...