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...there's plenty of other evidence. For one thing, while income tax revenues are up sharply, Social Security and Medicare tax receipts have remained flat as a share of the economy. "That tells you it isn't the average wage earner whose taxes are going up," says Steuerle. Another sign is that capital-gains taxes, paid mostly by the wealthy, doubled from...
...placed both it and a penny in the girl's open palm. She glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood on his ladder wiping soot from the street sign with...
...growing visibility of figures like Welch is one more sign of Dick Cheney's diminished role in the Bush war cabinet. During Bush's first term, the views of the U.S.'s diplomatic corps were largely dismissed by neoconservatives allied with Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. But as the Iraq war drags on and its chief advocates fade, the diplomats are stealing some late-game limelight. That's due in large part to Rice, who has consolidated her authority over the Administration's foreign policy and made course corrections that have resulted in a denuclearization pact with North Korea...
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...stroke it?’“‘I wish you would.’” Smiley’s pre-coital dialogue is so formal it’s laughable, and it’s not only a sign of her distance from real life. Smiley is so caught up with the academic arguments of war that she loses touch with the things that make a novel: characters, narrative, and a personal aesthetic.But even if characters are ill-sketched and the narrative remains thin, Smiley has a gift for identifying beauty and breaking...