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...support for the average American, the Administration reaffirmed that Carter in the fall will advocate a faker revenue system that will tax all income the same. He will recommend lowering some tax rates, eliminating some deductions and ending the double taxation of dividends. The Administration also promised a simpler tax form...
...nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...
...broken down into discrete particles, the protons and neutrons, and since then a great many related particles have been identified. During the past decade it has become apparent that those particles too are complex rather than elementary. They are now thought to be made up of the simpler things called quarks. A solitary quark has never been observed, in spite of many attempts to isolate one. Nevertheless, there are excellent grounds for believing they do exist. More important, quarks may be the last in the long series of progressively finer structures. They seem to be truly elementary...
...told TIME Reporter Sarah Bedell. "Peter the Great has been around 300 years." Da, tovarich, but litterateurs may recall the fate of Leo Tolstoy, who, following the success of War and Peace, plunged into a novel about the selfsame czar. Even he abandoned the project for something shorter and simpler: Anna Karenina...
These are worthy goals. They can be achieved. But they summon a different dimension of moral conviction than that of a simpler past. They require the stamina to persevere amid ambiguity, and the courage to hold fast to what we believe in while recognizing that at any one time our hopes are likely to be only gradually fulfilled. It is the essence of moral purposes that they appear absolute and universal. It is the essence of foreign policy to take into account the views of others who may also see their values in this manner...