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...head or wearing his cow suit? Well, brace yourself, Ripley. The folks who run the animated megamarket in Norwalk, Connecticut, pleaded guilty last week to what is being called the largest criminal tax case in the state's history, as well as the largest computer-driven evasion scheme in the nation. And Stew the showman may soon be wearing prison stripes...
Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...
...lunching reporters. Under the bright Hawaiian sun, waves lapping a few yards away, she began discussing the single- payer health care system, or the Canadian Plan, as it is sometimes known -- the more fully centralized approach favored by many liberals. Mrs. Clinton criticized it, and promoted the hybrid scheme that she said would finally be announced in the fall. "There's a lot to be said for crafting an American solution to an American problem," she said. "But I want people to know what the trade-offs...
...zillion-channel cable nirvana. But if universal access is now the compelling problem -- and it will only get more acute -- why not address it directly by subsidizing cable TV for poor people, a means-tested "cable stamps" program. After all, public TV began as a Great Society scheme, and Sesame Street was intended to uplift ghetto children. The opera shortage, on the other hand, may no longer be a crisis deserving federal attention...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s rank and file. But his quick start has rattled some of the association's Old Guard, who consider him too radical. Many resent the association's endorsement of President Bill Clinton's plan to lift the ban on gays in the military. Others criticize Chavis' scheme for going global as too grandiose for a group that has more than twice as many inactive members (1.2 million) as dues-paying participants...