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Others argue that even if the couple didn't know how deadly the dogs were, they still bear responsibility. "They took dogs bred for controlling cattle and pulling coal carts and put them in this small apartment," says Kenneth Phillips, California's leading dog-bite lawyer. "In my opinion that's negligence right there." (The dogs' previous owner told the San Francisco Chronicle that they killed her sheep, chickens and family cat.) Meanwhile, the people of Pacific Heights--many of whom say they lived in terror of the dogs--have another question to ponder. During the attack Whipple reportedly screamed...
...WORTH A BITE Chocolat MIRAMAX Faced with lackluster reviews, the studio ran an ad quoting endorsements by Jesse Jackson and the Anti-Defamation League. It also drummed up press with a White House screening...
...idea credible - and now Washington can smell a big tax cut the way hogs smell slop. Politicians are scrambling to the trough. Some of their schemes are well-intended - Senate majority leader Trent Lott wants to change the alternative minimum tax so it doesn't take such a big bite out of middle-class taxpayers - but all of them threaten to grow the beast. Lott's plan would bring Bush's plan to $1.8 trillion; House majority leader Dick Armey would inflate the cuts to $2.6 trillion. Corporate lobbyists "are baying at the door" of the Ways and Means Committee...
KNOW NEW TAXES Whenever you pick a mutual fund, don't forget you are trying to make money for Uncle Sam as well as yourself. Starting April 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission will require managers to disclose up front a fund's expected tax bite over one-, five- and 10-year periods. The sums will be calculated for the top bracket, 39.6%. Taxes account for an average 2.5% charge on fund returns overall--some more than...
...Part of that is reviving that old Republican righteousness about how big a bite the federal government ought to take out of the people's paychecks. Part is reminding voters that their stock portfolios aren't picking up the slack anymore - hence the reminders about the sagging economy, and the cautious push to make the cut retroactive to the first of this year. And part is convincing Americans that with today's surpluses, what Clinton called the "failed policies of the past" - cutting the taxes of people who didn't really need the money - won't fail this time around...