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...present who came forward to implicate his colleagues. Safir told TIME, "We are going to make sure the perpetrators...go to jail." Giuliani's critics say the mayor's concern is too little, too late. Civil claims paid by the city to those who sue charging police brutality have risen from $13.5 million in 1992 to $32 million last year, and 90% of all police-brutality cases in New York are filed by nonwhites. Safir says civilian complaints about police in New York were actually down 20% in the first half of this year, but critics say that's because...
...third rate, of 25%, for the sales of some types of rental property; and a fourth, of 28%, for such collectibles as rare coins. The G.O.P. also wants capital gains to be indexed for inflation--that is, the taxable gain would be reduced by the amount that prices had risen over the life of the investment. Treasury officials contend they would be forced to erect a whole new bureaucratic apparatus of agents, forms and experts to police the change. The changes could tempt investors to divert money into unproductive investments that nonetheless yield lightly taxed capital gains, like the half...
...forthcoming in its investigation. "Whether it's one person or a million, it's just further embarrassment for the military, because they've bamboozled this thing every step of the way. If you go back, you can chart how the number of people who may have been exposed has risen. For example, in the first five or six years, the number was zero. Since then, the Pentagon has gradually increased the number to the point where we're somewhere near 100,000. At this rate, pretty soon everyone will have been exposed...
...BORE BEING POOR Income has risen in the past two decades, but America's tide of prosperity hasn't floated all boats equally...
...later, it's as if Rio had never happened. A new climate treaty is scheduled to be signed this December in Kyoto, Japan, but governments still cannot agree on limits. Meanwhile, the U.S. produces 7% more CO2 than it did in 1990, and emissions in the developing world have risen even more sharply. No one would confuse the "Rio process" with progress...