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...impose the first-ever state income tax. Antitax protesters, egged on by a talk-radio host, surrounded the capitol, banging on the doors, throwing rocks through windows and scaring legislators into dropping the new tax. Instead they used the state's $560 million share of the national tobacco settlement to balance the books. More than a dozen states have tapped rainy-day funds or tobacco money...
...that day's assassination of radical Palestinian leader Abu Ali Mustafa. The shooting prompted Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to make good on a previous warning that Israel would not tolerate any further gunfire directed at Gilo, which Israel regards as part of Jerusalem but the Palestinians see as a settlement because it was built on land annexed after 1967. Beit Jala is a predominantly Christian Palestinian village that lies across a ravine within rifle range, and its residents have repeatedly complained to Arafat that they're exposed to great danger by Palestinian fighters who come into the area to fire...
TARGETING KIDS A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that tobacco companies have broken a promise, made in their 1998 settlement with state governments, to cut back on advertising aimed at minors. Camel, Marlboro and Newport--brands favored by teens--have actually increased budgets for advertising in magazines like PEOPLE, Rolling Stone and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED that have significant young audiences...
Representatives of both the alumni of the Sigma Chi fraternity and the alumni of the now-defunct Pi Eta fraternity say the two parties are close to reaching a settlement over the ownership of the building that Sigma Chi has used as a clubhouse since 1996. However, neither side would provide any details of proposed settlements...
Likewise, Sigma Chi President Michael G. Housman ’01 declined to comment for the fraternity. He said Sigma Chi plans to release a statement when the settlement is finished...