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Others are less generous toward the U.S., in part because of the brutality of the attack at the Sharzam school. One witness of the aftermath said the Americans shot Afghans as they hid under beds and rushed out of doorways. The Pentagon maintains that the Afghans started shooting first, but villagers say they heard no gunfire from inside the school. Two dead Afghans were found with their wrists bound. One U.S. soldier left behind a note: "Have a nice day. From Damage Inc." Days after the attack, the classrooms at the school were still soaked in thick blood. Surveying...
While Parker was generous in her praise of the Pudding cast, she was critical of her own performance...
...Phil Brownlee has received calls and letters from locals disgusted by the families' complaints, and he agrees. "It's just frustrating that the goodwill demonstrated by the government seems to be deteriorating," he says. "Now you've got families who are upset with what most Americans deem to be generous contributions. It's the loss of the spirit of Sept. 11, the souring of that sense of solidarity...
...didn't freeze his tax cut lightly. He spent much of his first term making generous reductions, though nothing like the $1.6 trillion break his brother enacted. But after 9/11, Florida had a $1.3 billion hole in its $20.3 billion budget. Bush and the legislature made a series of painful cuts in services, including a $591 million slash to public education...
...Florida is one of a small handful of states that still relies on sales taxes for its money instead of an income tax. When your leading industry is tourism, those sale taxes can be generous, but in hard times, they dry up even faster than other taxes. So Jeb had no choice but to save $128 million by delaying the tax cut for a year. Not an easy choice to make with an election coming up, but Bush has had solid approval ratings for most of his term. And he's not alone: Republican governors in New York, Michigan...