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...Republicans who are going after the EITC insist that when the per-child credit is taken into account, most of the working poor will be better off. "At $30,000 a year, a family will get a 51% cut in their income taxes," explains Scott Hodge, a tax-policy expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "A family of four earning $100,000 a year will get a tax cut of only...
...society that has lost its footing,'' says Kenneth Lieberthal, a scholar at the University of Michigan. ''Society is now without a sure sense of what China is all about.'' With no better alternatives, leaders emphasize stability and nationalism. "The government is uncertain," explains Robert Sutter, a China expert at the Congressional Research Service, "and that leads them to reassert control as much as they...
...former communist parties of eastern Europe are moving toward social democracy, the Russian party "is evolving toward national socialism." Otto Latsis, a Moscow political commentator, says Zyuganov heads "the worst part of the old party apparat, the most reactionary fringe." In Washington, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, a Russian expert, says Zyuganov's Communists are "the inheritors of the most brutal system this century has known, except for the Nazis. We have nothing in common with these guys...
...telephone interview yesterday, Rowena J. Otremba, an owner of the lab, said the Cambridge Police Department child pornography expert and the official from the district attorney's office who viewed the pictures had "agreed that the pictures were a little bit 'on-the-line...
Even so, Bosnia is a dangerous assignment. Atop the worry list for everyone, from private in the field to general in the Pentagon, is land mines. Overall, experts think the former Yugoslavia has been sown with anywhere from 2 million to 6 million mines. The American sector is known to contain three big minefields plus heaven knows how many mines planted individually and in small clusters. Tore Skedsmo, a U.N. mine expert, says all sides in the Bosnian war--Serbs, Croats and Muslims--"were laying mines like mad" right up until Nov. 21, when the basic peace agreement was initialed...