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...come down to decommissioning again. As long as Unionists are willing to hold their breath about decommissioning, it's better than the IRA saying 'we won't do anything at all' and taking the weapons out and using them again. It's going to be a mess, but a mess that continues along its current lines...
TIME.com: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble plans to resign by July 1 if the IRA doesn't start decommissioning its weapons. Is there even the slightest possibility that decommissioning may begin by that date...
...McAllister: The IRA doesn't have to actually start decommissioning; it just has to say something that makes people believe that it's really going to start. There doesn't appear to be a chance of that happening, for several reasons. If they are going to do it they've left it late. The IRA's leaders hate seeming to be pushed into anything by the Unionists, and I don't think they want to rescue Trimble in particular. If they're going to deliver a concession I think they'd do it later, when they could say they...
...bill isn't all bad. Beginning in 2002, it introduces a generous college-tuition deduction that increases up to $4,000 a year. But that lasts only through 2005. The bill expands the education ira to an annual contribution limit of $2,000, up from just $500, and for the first time permits that money to be put toward private elementary, middle and high school costs. Some see that as a stealth move toward a voucher system because it helps more families afford private school and thus undermines public education...
...retirement accounts. The coin market has gone into orbit the last 20 years with some rare currencies commanding million-dollar price tags. Numismatists have a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill, and coin dealers have been fighting hard to repeal a 1981 law barring rare coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet into an IRA. But if you've got a coin broker making money for you in a nationally recognized coin-trading network, Breaux's measure would let you sock those profits away...