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...average cut for the bottom 80% would be $239, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400 on average. "You have to give tax cuts to the people who pay taxes," argues House Majority whip Roy Blunt. Most of the benefits would kick in around election time, 18 months from now. Should the stock market bounce back and unemployment fall by that time too, Republicans believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more...
...important officials of the country's largest political party - allegedly including the Prime Minister himself - had direct dealings with the Mafia. If Giuffrè's story is not credible, that means politically motivated prosecutors may be using the courts to attack democratically elected leaders. Giuffrè's testimony was blunt. He said that after the decline in the early 1990s of the ruling Christian Democrats - who had leaders in Sicily who looked out for the Mafia's interests in Rome - top bosses turned to Berlusconi's Forza Italia party to do the Mafia's bidding. The Sicilian-born Dell'Utri...
...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...
...daintily into the lives of the lovelorn, tiptoeing around, or avoiding completely, realities like divorce, abortion and homosexuality. Then in 1955 Chicago housewife Eppie Lederer took over the syndicated Ann Landers column from a recently deceased nurse who had been doling out tabloid therapy under that pseudonym. With witty, blunt pointers ("A father who diapers his daughter at the age of 12 has a geranium in his cranium"), a heartfelt respect for her readers and a willingness to change her mind, she earned an ardent following of 90 million readers. Dubbed the country's most influential woman by a World...
...become George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan loved the choice, the Vice President boasted in private two Decembers ago--and surely what made Greenspan happy would tickle the markets too. Except it didn't work out that way. A respected executive whose blunt talk the President at first found refreshing, O'Neill never emerged as a persuasive advocate for the Administration's economic policy--in part because he never accepted its central belief that the cure for any ill is more tax cuts. So it made a kind of Washington sense that Cheney...