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...bill and is written in the obscure jargon of all special-interest tax breaks--almost impossible to decipher, so bewildering is its language. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than a technical amendment to clarify some arcane section of tax law. But one clause offers a clue. It says the synfuel credit will be based not on current oil prices--the yardstick used in the past--but on "the amount which was in effect for sales in calendar year...
...Zawahiri tape, combined with the broadcast on Jan. 19 of the first audio diatribe from Osama Bin Laden in more than a year, amounts to a barrage of fresh rhetoric from the top leaders of al-Qaeda-in itself, perhaps a clue that something is afoot. Bin Laden's message offered the U.S. a truce similar to the one he proposed to European nations in October 2004, implying that al-Qaeda would cease attacks if Bush withdrew American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Nine months after the offer to Europe, London's subway and bus network was attacked by Islamist...
London police admitted last week they haven't a clue as to why thieves in the last six months have spirited away at least 20 bronze sculptures, each weighing half a ton or more. On Jan. 10, at a university campus in Roehampton, a 2.2-m-tall sculpture weighing one-third of a ton by the British modernist Lynn Chadwick was hacked from its plinth. One of a trio of figures, The Watchers, it is valued at $1 million - far less than the $5.4 million price tag on Henry Moore's 2.5-ton Reclining Figure that in December was lifted...
...surroundings bear only slight resemblance to the flashy labs you see on TV crime shows, but the division's record of success reads like a Hollywood script. In its first year of operation, the lab helped prosecutors win a tricky sexual-assault conviction in Iowa in which the key clue was dog urine (the victim was unable to identify the suspect, but her dog had relieved itself on his truck during the assault). "Once we had the DNA to connect him to the crime scene, he pled guilty," says acting lab director Beth Wictum...
Jack Abramoff's first venture into politics was probably a clue that the future superlobbyist had a rather flexible view of the rules: he was disqualified in his 1972 race for president of his Beverly Hills elementary school, after a teacher discovered he had violated the school's campaign spending limits by serving hot dogs at an election party. But Abramoff persisted, running again for student-body president in high school and failing. He later recalled those days in an interview with the Beverly Hills Weekly as "probably the last time I've really been involved in totally fair campaigns...