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...centerpiece of Forbes' campaign is the crowd-pleasing 17% flat tax for individuals and businesses. To voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, this idea has become his identity. Forbes is no longer the mild-mannered son of that balloon-flying, motorcycle-riding, Elizabeth Taylor-escorting millionaire; he's the Flat Tax Man. At the Budweiser booth at a trade show in Manchester, New Hampshire, a fellow gripping a cold one shouted at Forbes, "Hey, I saw you on TV this morning with the flat tax!" Notes Joel Slemrod, a tax expert who teaches at the University of Michigan Business School...
...fellow known as "Wad Master" Steve Baldwin, who works right here at Time Inc. and specializes in creating wads (Doomspeak for new levels). Steve has created an elaborate wad that looks exactly like the 37th floor of the Time & Life Building. The Wad Master, like me, is a mild-mannered, bespectacled guy with a crayon picture on his desk drawn by a young daughter. But he has it all figured out. "Why watch Rambo when you can be Rambo?" he asks. What I want to know is how to get out of Level 6. I tell him where...
...were impossible opportunities to miss--the trip could be a voyage of self-discovery among the trees and the grass, underneath a clear blue and cool sky. What a perfect setting for meditation! The actual game was a catalyst for male bonding among the Harvard youths, an experience in mild exercise, which was not mandatory, but recommended as a complement to a rigorous academic program...
...Blue Eyes of Yonta' opens the Festival with a mild view of Guinea-Bissau twenty years after the freedom movement's successful revolt against the Portuguese colonial government. Director Flora Gomes focuses on Yonta, a beautiful store clerk, who attracts attention as she walks through her hometown. One young man, Ze, becomes so enamored by her presence that he copies poems which praise 'her blue eyes,'--she has brown eyes--and sends them...
SITTING ON A BALE OF BARLEY destined for his cattle, Dick Carver gets just a little misty eyed as he recalls the moment that propelled him to leadership of a rebellion now sweeping the West. Usually mild mannered and affable, the Nevada rancher and Nye County commissioner reached a point last year when he had had enough. To him, federal intrusion into the daily life of his county had simply grown too great, so on July 4, 1994--Independence Day--he took the law into his own hands. His weapon of choice: a rusting, yellow D-7 Caterpillar bulldozer...