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...California, Berkeley, economist and tax expert. "I don't think there are many people in the tax-policy community who believe that it isn't." But there's no law that says the tax code has to be reasonable, and the private-equity guys claim to see economic danger in changing the rules...
...first glance, the CIA's release on June 26 of the agency's "family jewels"--well-guarded classified documents it had managed to hide for nearly 50 years--seems to be a cautionary tale about the danger of letting the government keep secrets. While the nation wasn't looking, the CIA was hatching plots that could have sprung from the mind of a Hollywood screenwriter: colluding with the Mafia, bugging reporters' phones, domestic spying on anti-- Vietnam War groups...
Thank you for this extraordinary story, which gave chilling insight into the minds of those who hate Americans and kill our soldiers. If we want to defeat our enemies, we must understand them. Your correspondent obviously puts himself in great danger when he meets people like Abdallah, and I appreciate it. I hope our politicians and generals are reading such stories and learning valuable lessons...
...Since the police arrest few traffickers, people sense little danger in the business. To many Africans involved, cocaine is a drug used by Europeans and Americans, not them, and the easy money it provides is just good business. "Everybody is saying that this is a blessing from God because the government does not have the money to pay people," says a local journalist in Bissau...
...summit effectively ostracized Hamas from the Arab fold, warning that it will have no future political role in Palestine if it does not accept the rules of democracy and reverse its coup against Abbas' authority in Gaza. In the view of Arab optimists, Abbas now more fully understands the danger that Hamas represents to his own leadership as well as the Palestinians' future. All of this represents a strengthening consensus behind the peace process not seen since negotiations collapsed with the election of hard-line Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in early...