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If I had my way, the AMT would be first up. Enacted in 1986 to make sure the rich don't dodge taxes by taking big deductions for such things as investment expenses and second mortgages, this tax now soaks even the middle class. Next year 1% of all tax...
That's true of the estate tax as well. A bill to kill it got as far as the President's desk this summer. But the measure has come under increasing fire as a break for the very rich. Relief may come in doubling the lifetime exclusion to $2 million...
1 CATHY FREEMAN You could argue--and we do--that the women's 400-m run in Sydney was the most sociopolitically burdened footrace since Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler. Under enormous pressure, the Aborigine Freeman came through magnificently in front of her cheering, weeping countrymen. She said she had...
4 MARION JONES She didn't win the five golds she sought, but three and a couple of bronzes aren't bad. In the 100-m sprint, she won by the largest margin since 1952. She bore up gracefully under great stress before and during the Games.
Enos doesn't sing, dance, act or even drive trucks--except for this one time--but he does seem to tell jokes. "I might do a commercial for Ryder, but I'm not looking to do something spectacular like run for President," he says. In level of fame, Enos ranks...