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...injury." Several Senators have threatened to filibuster the final bill if it contains the provision when it emerges from conference committee. Most cruise lines are already exempt from many U.S. regulations. Carnival founder Ted Arison--a billionaire who gave $100,000 to the G.O.P. in 1988--renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1993, thereby escaping U.S. estate taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIKE SHIPS IN THE NIGHT | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation's listening to Bob Dole's gothic baritone and Clinton's pleading lilt had been a sideshow that ended in one brief act of citizenship. Now the President and the people could return to the course they had agreed upon. Is this what the election was all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY POPULAR DEMAND | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...past," said Dole. "But over time, I realized that preferences created with the best of intentions were dividing America instead of bringing us, or bringing them together." The Republican nominee also distanced himself from a plank in the GOP platform that proposes a constitutional amendment to deny U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants. Dole said he would not support that part of the program because he had not authorized it himself. -->