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...They began to make silly assumptions about my mother and I simply because of our zip code [90210]," he says. "She started to warn my mom that my roommate was a simple boy from Tennessee and blah blah and that pissed my mother...
...Struggling to stay out front, tax hawks like Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich are looking to redirect the formidable momentum that carried Kerrey-Portman: Reform of the evil IRS, they insist, is mere prelude to a sweeping reform of taxation itself. "People are tired of the current tax code," said Gingrich Wednesday. "It's not fair to simply say it's about the IRS as an institution. It's also about the code they are trying to enforce...
...They can't blame the IRS for that. It was Congress, after all, that passed the Byzantine 10,000-page code currently in place. And filling many of those pages are the breaks, loopholes and other gifts that lawmakers have been publicly decrying ? and privately inserting ? since the days of the tithe...
...mood may be right ? but to really scale the Hill, the burn-the-code movement still needs a leader. And Steve Forbes just ain't gonna...
Since I'm sure that's what the editors want to do anyway, I hope you'll start making steps to correct this policy of using "gay" as a toned down code word for "queer." It is wrong factually, as well as limiting, backwards and reductive. --Gowri Ramachandran, GSAS