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...from the Boston Tea Party to "Read my lips." But this year -- this week -- the nation's enmity carries a new emphasis. Taxpayers are angered not only by how much they pay but also by how little the other guy pays, by the sense that the system is somehow corrupt, and by the reality of just how complicated the tax codes are. A poll conducted late last month by the New York Times and cbs found that 59% of Americans considered the federal tax system to be unfair...
...country's new 10,500-man civilian police force, which replaced the corrupt army-officer corps loyal to Noriega, is getting $20 million worth of U.S. training and equipment. Thanks to an accord reached last year, American investigators have access to secret Panamanian bank records whenever they suspect that accounts are being used to launder drug money. Now that Panama requires local banks to file meticulous reports on large deposits of cash, the cartels are no longer able to make millions of dollars disappear into a financial black hole. Efforts to set up similar laundering systems in Luxembourg and Uruguay...
While Brown hectored voters like Savonarola about the corrupt political system in Washington, Clinton worked two key blocs of Democratic primary voters -- blacks and Jews. At the end of last week he held a 2-to-1 lead over Brown with both groups. Clinton stands to benefit among Jews, who constitute about 30% of the Democratic primary vote, from Brown's offer to Jackson to be his running mate (an offer Jackson has coyly avoided accepting thus far). Brown felt the heat when he addressed the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York two days after Clinton had received...
Immediately hailed by publishers as a breakthrough, the agreement irked some small copiers, who labeled it a "corrupt bargain" and openly questioned the AAP's tactics...
...maverick and a mountebank, regained political legitimacy last week by edging out Clinton 37% to 36% in the Connecticut primary. "It's a miracle," Brown proclaimed. "It's not about me. It's about the grass roots rising up against the bounced checks, the congressional pay raises, the corrupt status...