Word: coded
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When the first streamlining of the confused and outdated federal criminal code reaches the Senate for action this week, public credit will go to its major supporters: the late Senator John McClellan, Senator Edward Kennedy and Attorney General Griffin Bell. Still, the man most responsible for the recodification is Kenneth Feinberg, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York who spent ten months working full time on the highly complex bill as chief counsel of a judiciary subcommittee headed by Kennedy. Feinberg, 31, labored with equally dutiful McClellan aides to bridge the gulf between liberals and conservatives on ways...
Though face lifting the Mirage with a few Marimekko prints and some hanging plants, the new owners purposely left, as the Sun-Times put it, "more code violations than barstools." But when the building inspector showed up, he spent eight minutes looking around, slipped a proffered $10 bill into his inspection papers and exclaimed, "Beautiful day!" Such self-over-public interest, the Sun-Times found, proved to be "the rule rather than the exception...
Whether it will continue to go on so brazenly in Chicago after the Sun-Times series remains to be seen. In November, their investigation complete, the Sun-Times sold the Mirage, warning the new owner to fix the building-code violations. After all, they might actually be enforced...
Guamanians hope that their leverage will increase dramatically as a result of a new tax code that has been passed by the island's legislature. Federal law allows U.S. territories to keep tax revenues paid by residents. Guam's code would extend "residency" status to any persons or companies wanting it, regardless of where they reside or do business. Those who file Guamian returns would be rewarded with a 75% tax rebate. Says Senator Edward Calvo, the tax code's author: "Once the multinationals hear about this, our budget worries are over." Well, not really. Federal lawyers...
...religion ever started with a full-blown iconography. The earliest Christian work was crude and secretive, a code of graffiti?crosses and fish scratched on walls. To enrich that, to give its visual discourse a dignity to match imperial power, Christian art needed pagan symbolism. Once its early frenzies over idolatry had been resolved, the new religion picked over the bones of antiquity, preserving many of its forms in doctrinal art but switching their meaning...