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...credits, and watch revenues shrink. Reduce the number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better off. "It's a lot easier to talk about in general terms than it is to design policies that meet those objectives," says Robert Reischauer, former head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office...
...Bush's economists believe you just might be able to. Led by Larry Lindsey, a former Federal Reserve governor, Bush's team is like a conservative All-Star squad from the Reagan-Bush years, a combination of supply-siders like Anderson and Harvard's Martin Feldstein, with do-no-harm pragmatists like Boskin. "There are no disagreements on where we're going," says Anderson. "But there are lots of discussions about the best way to get there...
...next day, Friday, shortly after 8 p.m., this customer allegedly drove into an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Chicago and began shooting. He wounded six men. Shortly afterward, he allegedly drove to Northbrook, Ill., and shot and killed Ricky Byrdsong, former head basketball coach at Northwestern University, as he walked with two of his children. By the time police cornered Smith, he had allegedly killed two men and wounded eight...
...Antidrug Chief General Barry McCaffery jetted into a Colombian military base last week, he saw the makings of a nightmare outside his window. "It was astonishing," the former Army general told TIME. "In some southern districts of Colombia, about a third of the land is under coca cultivation." From the air, it seemed that every jungle clearing was inlaid with coca bushes. The view impressed upon McCaffery that despite the loss of five U.S. servicemen--whose reconnaissance aircraft slammed into a jungle mountain hidden by clouds days before his visit--the Clinton Administration's war against Colombian drug cartels...
Sergei Stepashin is in it again. When the former secret policeman was made Prime Minister of Russia back in May, he wasn?t supposed to have much to do except cover Boris Yeltsin?s ample backside and make the usual feeble attempts at halting Russia?s economic dissolution. Suddenly he?s got a war to win, and it?s a war that Stepashin has lost before. In Dagestani, a provivce that borders on Chechnya in Russia?s mountainous (and mostly Muslim) north Caucasus region, a rebel force is trying to join its Chechen neighbors in achieving a de facto independence...