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...work and how long you're gone. Of course, the results of this last question will only be used if you fail to turn in that other form this week to the IRS, in which case official government agents will break into your house and steal your stuff, in lieu of taxes. Because of the new collaboration between the Bureau of the Census and the IRS, implemented only a week ago, the IRS is now the most well-stocked agency in the federal government. (If you'd like to get in touch with the IRS agent selling hot stereos...
...basketball gods have looked kindly upon players that have stayed for four years. A fated bounce of the lottery balls gave him Tim Duncan a spot with the San Antonio Spurs, and a national championship in 1999, in lieu of a cursed existence with the Clippers or the Boston Celtics...
...consensus was reached after Virginia governor James Gilmore proposed a five-year extension in lieu of agreement on how the transition to taxation could be made. The commission is also expected to recommend that Congress repeal the 3 percent telephone excise tax that mars the phone bills of Americans. Another recommendation would urge Congress to permanently ban taxes on Internet access. (Maybe that modem tax hoax had some effect after all.) MORE...
...Narayan's family has asked that donations be made to the Chisholm Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross in lieu of flowers...
There's considerably more teaching freedom in a program called Core Knowledge. It was fashioned by University of Virginia English professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of the best seller Cultural Literacy, on the premise that there's a canon of facts that all schoolchildren should know. In lieu of precise lesson plans, teachers are told that third-graders, for example, should study the Punic Wars and sixth-graders selections from Shakespeare. "There's been a real diffuseness in curricula," says former Education Secretary William Bennett, whose new book The Educated Child lays out a grade-school curriculum based on Core...