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...murder, works such as Barbara Garson's Shakespearean satire MacBird!, Richard Condon's gothic novel Winter Kills and Oliver Stone's film JFK have suggested the story makes a better myth if Lee Harvey Oswald were a cat's-paw instead of a gnat who changed history. The major boon to conspiracy theorists is that the facts do not fit neatly into the Warren Commission scenario. Unfortunately, they fit even less neatly into any alternative, which is why theorists are often driven to suppose that two or more plots intersected...
...losing struggle, what with middle-class wages tumbling from year to year. Hence the deficit, which sits toadlike on our national aspirations. Two-thirds of it could be wiped out overnight if corporate taxes were restored to their 1950s levels. But even the deficit can be a boon if you're in the filly-raising class. The interest payments, which take up about 15% of the federal budget, go to the owners of Treasury bonds, meaning mainly the monied, and thus serve as one more conduit for the upward flow of wealth...
...have a comfortable, attractive area.It's a boon for staff and workers," De Gennarosaid...
Some scholars say use of the networkwill be a boon because it allows for rapidexchange of data faster peer review of research...
...they went ahead anyway. The Secretary of State arrived in Beijing Friday night with an unequivocal message: China must improve its human-rights record or lose the low-tariff benefits of most-favored-nation trading status. President Bill Clinton had vowed that he would not renew MFN -- a boon that allowed China to roll up a $23 billion trade surplus with the U.S. last year -- if Beijing did not demonstrate tangible improvement by June, when the decision on extending MFN comes due. Nor did roundups like those of last week help China's fading prospects for support in Congress. Beijing...