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...firmly support the status quo in many tax havens. The group's pitch: Americans should be free to seek out lower tax rates anywhere in the world; competition from tax havens helps keep tax rates in the U.S. down. The conservative Heritage Foundation met with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and presented a similar argument. And the C.F.P. helped Don Nickles of Oklahoma, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, draft a letter to O'Neill applying still more pressure...
...June, the lobbyists got what they wanted. O'Neill told the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which was leading the campaign against tax havens, that the U.S. was out. And without the world's financial superpower, the biggest effort in years to rid the world's financial system of dirty money was short-circuited. America's European allies "will be very upset," the Heritage Foundation's point man on the issue declared in the Washington Post, but the global war on offshore banking was "dead, and thank goodness for that...
Until last month, O'Neill recommended delays in Clinton-era money-laundering regulations that had not yet been implemented so that cost-benefit analyses could be run--a classic Beltway ploy for slowing down and killing rules. And O'Neill's Treasury Department has called for a "top-to-bottom" review of anti-money-laundering resources and programs, which would have brought in the Office of Management and Budget to bean-count the costs of money-laundering enforcement...
Lesley students know that theirs is anything but a typical college experience. “It took me a while to get acclimated,” says O’Neill. “Especially when I talked to my friends at other colleges about how they’re going to parties and rushing sororities, it felt like a completely different college experience.” Says her classmate Angela Wright: “We have to take the T to go somewhere to a party or just to see the opposite sex.” It might seem...
...Kaross, the school does not feel overshadowed by Harvard’s big name. “Lesley knows who it is and what it is about,” he claims. “We tend to attract a diverse student body.” O’Neill continues, “The students are very different here. There are people with very different beliefs and backgrounds.” Following her classmate’s statement, Wright adds “And gender preferences.” Lesley’s students would like to make...