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...want to buy ourselves kegs and party we should just collect $5 from everyone and not use students' money," he said...
Woolsey nonetheless insists the CIA will continue to deal with sources one of his subordinates calls "scumbags." Declared Woolsey in a press conference last week: "The worse the group, the more we are likely to want to collect intelligence from them. The very fact of human-rights violations makes ((a)) group of more interest to us . . . exactly for the same reason that it is the worst of the local organized crime groups that are of the most interest to local police...
With the positive ID of Jouret's death, the mystery of the cult doesn't get any closer to being solved -- it just deepens, says TIME Switzerland reporter Robert Kroon. There's still the question of who benefited from the undoubtedly large sums of money that the cult collected from its members. Swiss media are reporting a transfer of $93 million to an Australian bank account held by one cult figure. "This was obviously a cult with a double life," says Kroon. "But you wouldn't think that the leaders would collect all this money and then kill themselves...
Among the nine ballot questions, Questions 6 and 7--the graduated tax proposals--could affect Massachusetts voters the most. If passed, Question 6 would change the state's constitution and would allow the state to collect its income taxes at a graduated rate, instead of at the current flat rate. Question 7 would set the specific rates and force higher-income residents to pay higher taxes...
...Forty-one states collect income taxes, and 35 of those as well as Germany and Japan collect them at a graduated rate," Capizzi says...