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...Democrats had props of their own. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt borrowed a new Lexus sedan from a local dealer and parked it outside the Capitol, near a dented muffler. Bush gives millionaires "a $46,000 tax cut, more than enough to pay for this Lexus," Daschle said. "But if you're a typical working person, you get $227. And that's enough to buy this muffler." The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, by his calculations, would reap 43 perent of the Bush tax cut, while families making less than $39,300 would...
...camped out behind a podium bearing a placard that said "Bush Tax Plan: New Lexus for Every Millionaire." And behind the podium was a Lexus. And there was Gephardt doing political standup, insisting that under the President's plan, lower-income families would only be able to afford "the muffler...
...sprinkled his talk with stories about meeting with Gorbachev, speaking before Midas muffler franchisees and watching the Discovery Channel. A former director of AOL, Powell gave assurances that America's technology-challenged diplomacy would get an upgrade. "I live on the Internet," he said, promising to enlist the aid of some of "my buddies" from the outside world: Steve Case, Andy Grove and Michael Dell. Where Madeleine Albright was known to send big advance teams and require special foods and water when she traveled the world, Powell said, "I'm an easy visitor. I've got no food requirements...
...forget Charly (Patrich Mercado) and Fredo (Jo Prestia), two bouncer/bikers with whom Marie and Isa at first spar and then hang out. Sensitive and self-conscious Charly especially is not your stereotypical biker whose modified muffler leaves city canyons quaking. The somewhat roly-poly fellow somberly and touchingly informs Marie that he knows many people are turned off by his weight. Even when the two bikers are pressing rolled-up francs into their friends' hands, for all the implicit paternalistic reek there's not a note of honest care absent...
...driver, described as a brown-haired "European type" in his 40s, behaved "abnormally." He zig-zagged, kept turning around to look behind him and at one point hit the brakes and pulled over to the right, apparently trying to park. His car made a loud roar as if its muffler had been damaged. As Francois and Valerie passed the Fiat and continued on their way, they noticed a large dog in the back...