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...Snow was named Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications and Speechwriting in 1991, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs in 1992. His syndicated column has appeared in newspapers such as the Dallas Morning News, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Now that Snow is leaving what the President has called "the punditry," he will be making news instead of reporting...
...sound of money piling up? For many property developers, it's a moo. In Orange County, Fla., investors are saving more than $7 million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check...
...problem; 86% expect future outbursts of violence. That sense of futility is what consigned the projects to slow decay in the first place. "People make the mistake of talking about a banlieue problem; it's really a problem of French society as a whole," says Marie-Louise Fort, mayor of Sens - where one-third of the town's 38,000 population lives in public housing. "The ills of the banlieue are French ills." It's in the projects themselves that the symptoms are the most severe. In Sens' Champs Plaisants project, school-age youths roam the tenements or fake calls...
...Sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, forced standing, denial of bathroom breaks, denial of clothing and emotional manipulation? That sounds like something I experienced recently: U.S. military boot camp. Joshua Matthew Fisher Senior Airman, U.S.A.F. Fort Edward, New York...