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...have their own chants, symbols and even weapons of choice. The infamous Bushwackers of Millwall, a tattered docklands area of London, wear surgical masks during matches to hide their identities and favor small Stanley cutting tools to carry out their assaults. Some Liverpool supporters who attended the Brussels game insist that many fans dressed in the crimson of Liverpool spoke in the Cockney accents of Chelsea and West Ham, London neighborhoods whose clubs are known for their marauding followers. In fact, Liverpool fans had a reputation among the British for relative propriety...
Such prospects leave advocates of tax reform dry-eyed. Says M.I.T. Economist Lester Thurow: "We have some industries like real estate that basically pay no taxes." But real estate operators insist that the public also would be hurt. The costs of owning a house, cooperative apartment or condominium would rise under the new tax plan because property taxes would no longer be deductible and the interest deduction on principal residences, even though it would be retained, would be worth less. A $10,000 deduction saves the homeowner as much as $5,000 in federal taxes at a 50% top income...
...ruler of Kuwait, an Iraqi ally, two weeks ago; Tehran denies the charge. Iraq's basic problem is that it desperately wants to end the war it started 56 months ago, but does not know how to achieve that aim. The Iranian leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, continues to insist that hostilities will not end until the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has fallen. Some of Khomeini's domestic enemies maintain that another reason for the Ayatullah's inflexibility is that he needs the gulf war to hold his increasingly fractious country together...
...debate over the means of battling apartheid, Harvard activists insist upon complete divestment above all else. That insistence is founded on several bogus assumptions...
Despite protestations to the contrary, union organizers around the Ivy League insist that the universities don't practice what they preach...