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...signed into law (and the Federal Government already forced to borrow to pay for the tax-rebate checks just now going out), you would think Congress had finished writing checks for a while. Wrong. In the energy bill passed by the House last week lies a hidden plum: $34 billion in tax cuts over 10 years, mostly going to--yep--oil-and gas-exploration firms. The House-passed patients' bill of rights also contains some little-noticed tax breaks: $16 billion over 10 years for small businesses and folks who save for medical care. In all, about $80 billion...
...Nobody is sure whether the current coalition arrangement will work for Megawati. Conflicts could break out almost immediately when some of the parties that joined her in pulling down Wahid don't get the plum cabinet jobs they had hoped...
...scouts the fashion schools because, she says, young designers are already too commercial to be interesting to her. The Flanders Fashion Institute in Antwerp is famous for turning out some of the most creative minds in fashion. But she can't get them to Italy, not even for a plum job like this. Complains Lusuardi: "The goal of the school is to train them to work only with their own name." Most of the graduates do just that, and a surprising number of them choose to do it not in Paris or Milan, but in Antwerp. Of the original Antwerp...
...plum job of top dog in the Justice Department's criminal division has gone to Michael Chertoff, a former U.S. Attorney who served as GOP Sen. Alfonse D'Amato's chief counsel in his Whitewater investigation. Ted Olson is now solicitor general, having spent part of the last 8 years helping out with the American Spectator's zealous prosecution of Bill Clinton -even as his wife, Barbara Olson, who used to work for Dan Burton, appeared on a fleet of TV talk shows defending Ken Starr's investigation of Clinton. Brett Kavanaugh, who used to work on Starr's independent...
...possible actors' strike is forcing A-list stars to set priorities and leaving juicy parts open to hungry newcomers. In the upcoming Phone Booth, Farrell plays a New York exec who answers a public phone and is told he'll be shot if he hangs upa plum role originally intended for Jim Carrey. He was cast in Hart's War after Edward Norton dropped out and jumped onto Spielberg's $60 million sci-fi thriller Minority Report when Matt Damon bailed. Farrell is the first to admit his success is due as much to luck as talent. "If that...