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...specific on tax cuts than spending reductions. "We gave our word to cut taxes," he said at a Chamber of Commerce town meeting being sent via satellite to 3,700 sites around the U.S. "We need your help in calling your member of Congress to let them know we ought to keep our word on the contract." So far as the House goes, Gingrich needn't worry. Even Henry Hyde, one of the 102 Republicans who signed the child-credit letter, said last week that he would "vote for a two-headed turtle" if it had tax cuts...
...Kurdish leaders ought to be joining hands to secure their independence from an increasingly shaky Saddam, who escaped yet another coup attempt earlier this month. Instead Kurds are killing one another, and northern Iraq and beyond are growing dangerously unstable. Meanwhile, neighboring Turkey, at war with rebellious Kurds in its provinces, was in turmoil last week from rioting by extremist Islamic and nationalist groups. "The area is extremely volatile--all of it," says a worried senior Clinton Administration official. Still more tinder piled up last week after Saddam seized two American civilians who seemed to have accidentally wandered across...
This is not to say that movie executives ought to act like they're in the derivatives market. You can do all right playing by the well-established rules. Indeed, you probably have to most of the time. No board of directors is going to question you too quickly for hiring stars with a track record and putting them in genre vehicles that have some prerecognition value. Even when one of these flops, you can always invoke the prudent-man defense. Hey, I did it by the rules; it's not my fault if they didn't come...
...Rape victims ought to be viewed with compassion, not suspicion; rapists ought to be viewed with rage, not tolerance," Cellucci said...
...time, his talent and his financial resources in Zaire. Robertson is personally funding the African Development Co. to the tune of more than $2 million. At least 2,000 Zairians have received regular jobs; eight medical clinics currently function with doctors, nurses and medicine funded by Robertson. Time ought to be praising Robertson instead of pummeling...