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...case can be made for targeted tax cuts to encourage socially beneficial behavior like research into alternative cars and fuels. A case can also be made-though Bush would rather see Brokeback Mountain than make it-for targeted tax increases to discourage things like, well, an addiction to oil. But what are we to make of the perennial conservative call for the elimination of the estate tax, which would cost $750 billion over 10 years? Republicans have done a clever bit of marketing here by calling it the death tax. Perhaps Democrats should nickname estate-tax repeal the Paris Hilton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bush Without Boldness | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...nonfiction. Making a ton of money is apparently more important to him than being truthful, but the real tragedy in this case is that most people don't care. Liars and cheaters have been around since the beginning of civilization, but only now are they lavishly rewarded for bad behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 13, 2006 | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

While Jaworski proudly puts her name on Beauty Dish and takes a tone of amused detachment toward her subjects, most salesclerks who blog stay anonymous--to hold on to their jobs and take full advantage of the chance to rant, without mercy, about shoppers' bad behavior. "Do not wait until one minute before we close to come into my store and expect me to wait patiently while you browse and then don't buy anything," chastises Retail Recorder, a blogger who identifies herself only as a store manager. The cell-phone saleswoman who writes a blog called Can You Hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail: Retail Revenge | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...equal-opportunity scold. His strip features not just the customers chatting on their cell phones in the checkout line but also the clerks who work only for the employee discount and the managers obsessed with the employee dress code. "People aren't even aware of their own behavior," Feuti says. "Maybe they'll finally realize if they see it in print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail: Retail Revenge | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...post as number three in the party hierarchy. "Blunt?s a good man, but he couldn't overcome the relationship with DeLay," said Joel Hefley, a congressman from Colorado who was ousted as head of the House ethics committee early last year after it repeatedly rebuked DeLay for questionable behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP's Surprise Ending | 2/2/2006 | See Source »

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