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Yeltsin uses another tactic to calm the anger he encounters--an immediate dispensation of funds. In the U.S. such pork-barrel spending is usually hidden in a maze of worthwhile legislation. In Russia, Yeltsin earmarks billions of rubles with abandon. In just the past several weeks he has signed a decree giving a $5 billion subsidy to farmers and has said commercial electricity rates will be cut in half. Those big items are ruinous enough, but Yeltsin's aversion to fiscal sanity goes further. In Yaroslavl, for example, he pledged $700,000 to house veterans of the Afghanistan...
...repeal the Clinton gas-tax hike of 1993. Now Gingrich believes he has found something even more popular to roll back: beer taxes. At a meeting in his office on May 3, Gingrich discussed the idea of repealing George Bush's 1990 hike in tax on beer by the barrel. The Bush beer tax raised the price of a six-pack 16'. Gingrich believes a beer-tax cut, plus the gas-tax cut, is a sure way to help the G.O.P. court Joe Six-Pack and other American voters. Democrats are fuming, partly because they didn't think...
Doom's charm wasn't its almost non-existent plot line, which involved space marines--or something. The attraction was hunt-and-be-hunted action that put the player behind a shotgun barrel (or a chain saw or a nail gun) in a hellish 3-D world of demons and fireball-spitting ogres...
...three-alarm fire began around 2 p.m. in a basement storage room beneath Crate & Barrel. Several Harvard buildings were evacuated...
...other crime news, efforts to combat a fire at the Brattle Street Crate & Barrel furniture store took an unexpected turn Tuesday afternoon when workers discovered some money in a utility entry port...