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...John, executive director of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, says asking poor working families to take on another job is an imposition. "These families need every ounce of their effort to pay for rent and food," he says. "An extra job could be the straw that breaks the camel's back." Others fear that if the IRS rules the labor is revenue, some people may lose some of their Medicaid, food stamps or earned-income tax credit. To avoid that problem, hospital attorneys insisted that the program be voluntary. No money changes hands. A task not completed...
DIED. FRANK SCOTT, 80, silver-tongued superagent to sports stars of yesteryear; in Livingston, N.J. Scott was the first agent to prove that his clients could pitch a product as well as a ball, shagging Yogi Berra Yoo-Hoo commercials, Roger Maris a gig for Camel cigarettes and Mickey Mantle a spot on an early box of Wheaties...
...probably still wants to kill him after five days." Ban Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases to one gun a month? "It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands." Sarah Brady, head of the lobby Handgun Control Inc., doubts that Heston will moderate the N.R.A...
...wonder that Anne Heche is slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing...
...taxes, not raise them. Gramm is happy because it's a tax cut. McCain is happy because his bill is still alive. But more than a few Democrats are starting to worry that the money in the tobacco kitty, which was supposed to save our children from Joe Camel, is being handed out in all the wrong places...