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...poll finds substantial public opposition to the 10% tax slash. Fully 47% of Americans prefer to cancel the cut if their altruism would help balance the federal budget, while 37% want the cut and 16% are undecided. A higher proportion of Republicans (53%) than Democrats (45%) would like to jettison the tax reduction...
...overburdened lawyers who represent them. The Georgia branch of the LSC has lost 100 of its 300 staff members. Offices in some towns have been closed; others are served only by circuit-riding lawyers. Community Legal Services of Philadelphia has decided that in order to stay afloat, it must jettison eviction cases, small-claims actions, child support and custody cases, contested divorces and many spouse-abuse complaints. The office still represents many clients appealing disqualifications from the Social Security disability program and wins back benefits for two-thirds of them...
Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where Von Richthofen is housed, has been in a serious dramatic slump for the past two seasons. Surely, the one way not to soar again is to jettison sense, taste and judgment. -By T.E. Kalem
...relations with the U.S. We think we should be friends and want to do everything we can for friendship. Of course, we cannot jettison our basic policies. They are not thought up, they are thought out-considered. The tendency in the U.S. is to assume that a person is either 100% with you or not with you. This is not realistic. You can be with a person on some issues and not on others. My goal is to try to show the reality of India, that it is a country with enormous problems but trying to solve them, that...
Woody Allen has chosen to jettison those aspects of his comedy that made him a national endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not a period piece, we are advised-surfaces at Christmas. Pray it's not called Twelfth Night. -By Richard Corliss