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...Hoisting a live cow to the top of Memorial Hall
...member of the Republican leadership in Congress, Jack Kingston is on the front lines of taking on what he admits is the "sacred cow of American politics." If his three town halls conducted last Tuesday in strongly Republican counties are any reflection, President Bush may finally have met his political match. "If Social Security doesn't move this year, I don't know when it will come back," says Kingston, the vice chair of the Republican Conference, which works on developing the House GOP's message. Many Republican members of Congress have been reluctant to have open forums on Social...
...roads. While it's true that leaders staged a fistfight in 1800 to determine where to place the county seat--the town of Tazewell (pop. 4,100) was the winner--residents like to point up their law-and-order quietness with the story of how they once put a cow in jail because they could not tolerate the clanging bell. Now the county's crime woes have made it a case study in how prescription-pill abuse has stressed a judicial system to the breaking point, overwhelming cops, sheriffs, prosecutors and judges...
Only at a huge cost. To the federal government, the AMT has become a cash cow, projected to generate $660 billion of tax revenue over the next 10 years. In 2010 alone, the AMT will bring in $105 billion of additional tax revenue, or 9% of all federal income tax. Plagued by deficits, Congress is loath to turn its back on this bonanza--especially since it hits a relatively small political constituency...
What does it mean to be hot? What does it mean to be one of the 15 hottest? We have absolutely no idea, except that these eight women and seven men look a lot more like beautiful sculptures than they do cow carcasses...