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...filers would get reductions of less than $100, according to the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The top 1% would get breaks of $24,400, on average. "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumes Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee...
...DIED. CONRAD HALL, 76, cinematographer who won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 and another three decades later for American Beauty; of complications from bladder cancer; in Los Angeles. His rich, naturalistic camera style was most recently on view in last year's Road to Perdition...
Lying seemed easier than telling the truth. "His father wanted it to be a secret," says Ed's aunt Virginia Conrad, who eventually told Ed practically everything he knows about his mother. "There was a lot of embarrassment about it." For a while, Ed blamed himself for his mother's condition--he wondered if his birth had made her snap--but mostly he tried to banish her from his mind and go on with his life. He joined the Air Force and married his wife Velma. They had three children...
...DIED. CONRAD L. HALL, 76, Hollywood cinematographer whose masterful use of light in his 50-year career won Academy Awards for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and American Beauty (1999); in Santa Monica, California. Hall is considered a candidate for a posthumous Oscar for his work on Road to Perdition. Commenting on Hall's skill, producer Richard D. Zanuck once said: "It was like Rembrandt at work...
...time too, Republicans believe that voters won't care if the rich get richer - as long as they do too. Democrats, who have their own, more modest program, remain critical: "This is the most reckless policy I have seen pursued by any President in my adult life," fumed Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee. Reckless or not, the plan is likely to move rapidly through the House of Representatives, where the Republicans are comfortably in control. The Senate will be tougher, since moderate Republicans also worry about the size of the cuts...