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...flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan, had a change of heart, saying last week that he was happy that tax relief was being debated at all. A plan more likely to emerge from Lott's domain is being drawn up by Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea: raise the amount of income subject to the 15% minimum rate and exempt $500 of interest and dividend income and $5,000 in capital...
...Board of Regents would give minority applicants advocates in the U.C. system and provide a welcome balance to the virulent conservatives like Regent Ward Connerly who spearheaded the anti-affirmative action effort. Current regents have been appointed by 16 years of Republican governors preceding Davis--in fact, former Governor Pete Wilson pushed strongly for the anti-affirmative action vote...
...Yeah, [Vikings center Pete] Bercich put my locker in the snow. It's pretty much an everyday event. The one thing I love about the season's being over is not having to be a rookie anymore. We would have to go around and get all the guys' playbooks together so the coaches could install the game plan for the week. If there weren't enough seats at the meetings, we'd have to go and get chairs. Typical stuff. At least I don't have to carry luggage," Birk said...
...seems politically untouchable, despite horror stories like the one about a Los Angeles 27-year-old who got 25 years to life for stealing pizza. Last year two state senators tried to limit the measure to violent crimes, but the bill didn't make it out of committee. Governor Pete Wilson vetoed a bill simply to study the effects...
...Those not lucky enough to get antique seats were placed between the rows, so that tall Senators like Oregon's Gordon Smith sat with his knees pressed up against the chair in front of him. "It was like riding with two people in a wheelbarrow," said New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici...