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President Clinton today pledged to sign legislation that combines tax deductions for the self-employed with a huge tax break for media mogulRupert Murdoch. TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson says such there are thousands of similar exemptions in the tax code, creating the complicated tax structure that Republicans say they want to dismantle. The bill, approved by Congress, eventually would let an estimated 3.2 million self-employed people deduct 30 percent of theirhealth insurance premiums. It also would eliminate tax breaks for companies that sell TV stations to minorities, while retaining the benefit for Murdoch's contract to sell...
...were only this simple. Wellman's script is a minefield of abstractions, a barrage of heavy-handed symbolism and non-linear (dis) connections. And where else to witness this fragmented and worn schema of juxtapositions than a junkyard? The mire is realized in James Murdoch's artfully ramshackle set. Littered with couches, barrels, tires and a clothesline, the audience is strewn around the playing space, indistinguishable from the wreckage...
...companies added to a growing ethical controversy. The House ethics committee is already looking into donations to GOPAC, the Gingrich-led political-action committee that received money from corporations like Hewlett-Packard. The committee is also probing his lucrative contract to write two books for media mogul Rupert Murdoch...
...started out mildly enough, as Democratic Representative Carrie Meek of Florida delivered a routine denunciation of Speaker Newt Gingrich's lucrative book deal with a Rupert Murdoch- owned publishing house. But before Meek could reach the end of her short speech, the Republican-managed House ruled her out of order and voted to strike her remarks from the record. The parliamentary scrap immediately brought a phalanx of the people's Representatives to the floor to scream at one another, with Republicans denouncing the speech for lack of decorum and Democrats blasting the g.o.p.'s "totalitarianism." Later, in a bare-knuckles...
...sides of the deal insist there was no impropriety. When Gingrich and Murdoch met, their aides say, the Speaker was unaware that Murdoch owned HarperCollins, and Murdoch had no idea that his company was negotiating for Gingrich's books. Yet even Republicans are worried by the lingering suggestion that the Speaker is looking to make a profit on his new fame. Thomas Mann, a scholar of Congress at Washington's Brookings Institution, predicts that continuing controversy over the deal will force Gingrich to give up the book project entirely or donate all its proceeds to charity...