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Best Friends and Club Founders Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch deliver monologues wholly devoid of irony on the brilliance of Republicans from Grant to Hoover and sound like soap opera shrinks...
...hard line. There seems to be no one powerful enough to rein him in. Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time he was an errand boy for Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Says Richard F. Staar, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Gromyko has always been a hardliner. He's delighted now to perform that function as the official spokesman for the party...
...both Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge were cigar smokers up to and through the White House years. They could not have been true connoisseurs, since historians have dealt rather harshly with them...
During the reign of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the agency solved crimes the old-fashioned way, by simply investigating them. Today's FBI agent is more likely to resort to undercover tactics, gaining evidence by posing as a criminal. For fiscal year 1977, the FBI budgeted $1 million for undercover operations, excluding salaries and overheads; by fiscal year 1984, that figure had grown to $12.5 million. In the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1983, FBI scams resulted in 1,328 indictments and 816 felony convictions. The notable FBI operation that triggered the committee study was Abscam...
...could raise revenue and simultaneously lower tax rates. One of the most sweeping strategies of this kind is the so-called flat-tax proposal put before Congress last year by Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Devised by Economist Robert Hall and Political Scientist Alvin Rabushka of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, the plan would eliminate all deductions and tax everyone at the same rate, 19%. Currently, rates go as high as 50%. The Hall-Rabushka proposal would let all taxpayers subtract a "personal allowance" from their income that would amount to $8,500 for a family of four. This...