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...paid by a state or local government and the fee is above a "reasonable amount." The lawyer tax has been a popular idea in Republican circles for years--Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) made a similar proposal in 1998--and was part of Bush's larger tort-reform package. Unfortunately, rather than balance the playing field in any meaningful way, the lawyer tax represents a clear example of arbitrary, discriminatory and politically motivated taxation whereby the ruling party attacks its enemies through the tax code...
...Beijing has clearly learned a lesson from a failed Olympic-hosting bid in 1993, when it made little effort to court international opinion and acted as if the Games were a gimme. This time around, city officials have downplayed the Communist Party's political agenda, emphasized an environmental-reform package and shown such flexibility with athletic federations that they've agreed to host beach volleyball on the hallowed political ground of Tiananmen Square. "They take every idea on board," says Irene Cheung of international sports-marketing firm Octagon, which Beijing has retained for advice...
...budgetary crisis has prompted Fischler and others to call for a radical reform of the E.U.'s $37 billion Common Agricultural Policy, shifting a share of its massive subsidies away from large-scale intensive farming toward more environmentally friendly producers. With European farm lobbies clamoring for more emergency aid and threatening mass disruptions-like the French and Belgian protesters who blocked roads with tractors and burning tires last week-it remains to be seen whether the politicians will have the stomach to push through sweeping changes. But Fischler did take a first step last week by proposing a 90-head...
...Like Borodin or Mikhailov, these rejectees have not been proved guilty of any specific crime that would warrant their exclusion. Yet perhaps it is good that they must stay home. Too many of the Russian high and mighty have used their positions over the past decade of reform to line their pockets. Graft is universal. Last year an estimated $24.6 billion left Russia, money garnered mostly through bribery, kickbacks and outright theft and sent to private accounts in offshore banks. That's an increase of 30% over 1999, and the total capital drain from Russia over the past decade...
...said economics has traditionally not been a field in which everyone agrees, and said there needs to be a fundamental reform of the curriculum of Ec 10 to reflect divergent opinions...