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DARTH VADER In Episode I, Qui-Gon Jinn sees potential in 9-year-old Anakin Skywalker. By II, the teenage Jedi-in-training has begun to rebel against his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi...
Finally, investigate ways of fighting tax fraud that can withstand an IRS funding shortfall or a hostile Congress. One approach would be to make the tax laws self-enforcing. The False Claims Act already allows private individuals to file “qui tam” lawsuits against those defrauding the government. If they win, the government receives treble damages, and the plaintiffs take home a portion of the proceeds—normally around 25 percent. Originally designed to catch fraudulent military contractors during the Civil War, the act was revised in 1986 to increase rewards and to protect employee...
...vestiges of an empire all but forgotten. When Zheng He's ships first called on Champa, the powerful Hindu kingdom had dominated central Vietnam for more than 1,000 years. The haven described by the fleet's Chinese chronicler Ma Huan was the rough port town of Qui Nhon, where sarong-wearing, wiry-haired Cham ivory merchants and slave traders plied their wares. Yet in 1471, less than 70 years later, the northern Annam kingdom of ethnic Vietnamese conquered the Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted...