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Perhaps the best barometers of any proposed policy change are its supporters. It's no small wonder that Steve Forbes has made the flat tax his issue of choice, with a multimillion dollar income from Forbes Inc. and his family's huge investments, Forbes would see his own tax rate cut by more than half--a yearly savings of millions, perhaps tens of millions, of dollars...
...Depositions in the Goldman suit were to have started this week but were postponed until Oct. 30 after Simpson hired a new attorney, civil litigator Robert Baker. It's rare for acquitted criminal defendants to be hit with such suits, which carry no jail time but could result in multimillion-dollar damage judgments. Explains Professor Welsh White of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law: "Most criminal defendants, unlike O.J. Simpson, do not have the kind of assets that would be worth pursuing...
...Simpson is set free, it will mean either that he is guilty but had a good enough defense to beat the rap or that he is innocent and might have been sentenced to life in prison were it not for a multimillion-dollar legal defense. Once they have been indicted and put on trial, people with limited financial resources stand a good chance of being convicted, even if innocent. Just as the winner of a formal debate is the better debater and is not necessarily the one whose position represents the truth, it seems that American justice depends less...
...uphill, carving animals in topiary, all for slightly more than it costs to put a child through a year at Harvard. "Louis XIV started small and watched Versailles grow," says power gardener Martha Stewart, who over the past 25 years has composted vanity, domesticity and commercial genius into a multimillion-dollar empire. "Gardeners today want it big and they want...
...quote from the first single, Scream, "The whole system sucks." Will any of his millions of fans notice the irony? "His whole self-aggrandizing stance seems inappropriate, considering what's gone down," says a record-industry insider, whose company is part of the album's multimillion-dollar promotional crusade. "But people have short memories; if the music's there, people will probably respond...