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...submitted budget, the Bush Administration secretly proposed that the IRS target its stringent audits not on wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could it be that the President remembers the pain of coughing up to the taxman...
...people of these countries from learning the truth and having their say if they can. If George Bush were to start a ground war in order to get it over before too many people, be they Arabs or non-Arabs, change their minds, it would take true Rube Goldberg reasoning to blame the resulting casualties on the press...
...hypothesis to survive this crisis would take such complicated physics that the cosmos would have to operate like a Rube Goldberg machine. For the most part, though, nature follows simple rules. So while cold dark matter may exist, astronomers are beginning to search elsewhere to solve the mystery of how the galaxies were born...
...Peace of Mind Guarantee Program" it promises skittish home buyers that if they lose their jobs due to economic conditions within a year of closing, Calton will cover mortgage payments up to $1,500 a month for six months or until the owner returns to work. Says newlywed Wendy Goldberg, a computer instructor who will soon close on a $150,000 home: "The idea of taking all our funds and running them dry to buy a house was very scary. At least this way we'll have a place to live if something happens to our jobs...
...Goldberg and Spacek perform their good deeds without undue condescension, and Dwight Schultz is really fine as Spacek's husband, teetering between propriety and principle. But no actor's art can disguise the simplemindedness of this tract or the stodginess with which it is dramatized. What are audiences to learn about today's racial antagonisms from a long-ago tug of war between saints (the black underclass) and demons (the Alabama plutocracy)? The movie plays like a Christmas card whose sentiment is noble but whose poetry is doggerel...