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...Reagan's White House, while 177 flooded out of Clinton's. And Marc Rich's pardon isn't the only one that appalled federal prosecutors. While most of the 177 were for minor drug and fraud offenses, roughly a third raise serious questions. A TIME analysis of the pardon fever--the symptoms included well-connected lawyers and pols pulling strings, bypassing the Justice Department and sending petitions directly to the White House, often at the last minute--turned up these eye-popping remissions...
...middle of the night. Your baby suddenly spikes a high fever. For a while, he cries hysterically, and then suddenly he's eerily calm, whimpering every once in a while. His temperature is still climbing. What...
Even George W. Bush seemed surprised at how hot tax-cut fever was getting. At a White House meeting last week with Congressmen from the Ways and Means Committee, Bush marveled that while he had proposed a $1.3 trillion tax cut on the campaign trail, "Now, all of a sudden, people are throwing out $1.6 trillion. Everything in Washington seems to grow." Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal leaned over to him. "So, Mr. President," he asked, "what is the real number?" "$1.8 trillion!" Bush shouted, then said he was only joking. But the Congressmen weren't. From the back...
Indeed, until Washington caught the fever of tax cut as antidote to recession (it isn't), paying off debt was the strategy. Funny, no one seems to care that it too is a break for the rich--at least for those with big mortgages. Which shows that tax cuts are all about packaging--not the package...
...that's fine for a state that was established on gold fever and whose most famous exports are Baywatch, Tom Cruise...and the Disney empire. Why shouldn't a Disney "California" be Disneyfied? Walt's people invented the idea of an amusement park as a spiffy alternative universe. They perfected it. They still do it best...