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...novel from her with one eye on what they know of her unlikely history: a West Indian black, raised on Antigua, who--deep breath here--left home at 17 to escape a turbulent relationship with her mother, went to New York, dyed her hair blond in a brief punk phase, fell in with literary types at the New Yorker and became one of its star writers (though she has recently severed her ties with the magazine and publically criticized editor Tina Brown...
Republicans want to deny the EITC to workers without children and to phase it out faster among working families with children as their earnings rise. Over seven years, that would save $28 billion. Taken as a whole, the G.O.P. tax plan would mean a net loss in income for some working families with earnings in the $20,000-to- $25,000 range. Their EITC would be trimmed, but they still wouldn't make enough to get the per-child tax credit...
...chairman for documents concerning Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. Arkansas Governor Tucker, along with James and Susan McDougal, are already under federal indictment for their roles in the failure of the savings and loan at the heart of the Whitewater controversy. "The committee is now moving into the Arkansas phase of its investigation," D'Amato wrote in issuing the subpoenas. "We will continue to gather the relevant facts. We will be fair, thorough and impartial." Fairness was a concern to McDougal, who said he would be happy to appear before the panel and take a lie detector test, but wants...
...Eaton Vance of Boston: "We're in a world of single-digit growth. If you find an investment north of 15% a year, you're probably looking to a technology company." Byron Wien, a managing director of Morgan Stanley, feels the technology group is in a long-term growth phase rather than the kind of boomlet experienced by energy and casino stocks in the late 1970s. Mutual-fund managers with big investments in technology insist the industry has grown so big and diverse that it's unlikely to go bust all at once. Such companies include those that offer services...
Clashes between Israeli soldiers and and Palestinians just a week before the Israeli army is to pull out of the West Bank town of Nablus have put a crucial phase of the Israel-PLO autonomy agreement in doubt. Thursday, troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at the Fatah Hawks after Ahmed Tabouk, head of the Palestinian gang, led armed followers through the town firing hundreds of bullets into the air and hurling stones at passing Israeli military vehicles. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "These protests will continue because it is no longer...