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...indoor lacrosse team one week and start a newspaper the next--but almost never staying interested long enough to follow through. He rarely took on a client who couldn't pay at least $100,000 a month but nonetheless annoyed his associates by delegating to them the actual lobbying--or "asks"--of most Congress members. When it came to DeLay's office, however, Abramoff did the work himself. Sources say he developed a particularly close relationship with Tony Rudy, who in his five years of working for DeLay was at various times press secretary, policy director, general counsel and deputy...
...offs are limited partnerships, which have proliferated as tax shelters since the late 1970s and early '80s. An orthodontist investing in a real estate venture, for example, can deduct from his taxable income a share of the venture's losses based on the amount of his investment. Yet his actual liability is limited--hence the name of the arrangement--to the cash value of his initial in vestment. Thus if a partner invests $10,000, or 10% of a partnership's total investment, and the venture loses $700,000, he will be able to write off $70,000 but will...
...inspiration he described as "essentially French." Despite Chirac's often impassioned arguments, a poll taken the next day found he hadn't convinced 60% of respondents, nor eroded the no lead of 56%. "The show failed as a demonstrative explanation of the constitution's importance, but Chirac's actual impact will take longer than a day to measure," warns Dominique Reynié, a European affairs expert at Paris' Foundation of Political Science, who says the President's appeal to "not be frightened" may work slowly with some voters. The President's best line: his booming "Non!" when asked...
...still write the way I write, because it gives me laughs." Coulter told me that when her editor suggests cutting a line from a column to save space, "I'll ask him, 'But is it funny?' And if he says it's funny, I'll cut an actual fact [instead...
People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...