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...hour "secret speech" to the party congress in which he set forth Stalin's crimes and began the complex, much delayed process of de-Stalinization. Out of guilt or common decency, he began to rinse the terror out of Soviet life. Writes Taubman: "His daring but bumbling attempt to reform communism began the long, erratic process of putting a human face (initially his own) on an inhumane system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalin's Sancho Panza | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...with an ancient mandate to care for working stiffs, widows and orphans. He believed ethnicity was a more potent predictor of political behavior than social class. He outraged liberals by insisting that too many black children were being raised without fathers; he outraged conservatives by opposing Clinton's welfare reform because he didn't want to see those children hurt. He was an avid patriot and anticommunist, especially when he served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He drank like a fish, wrote like a dream and stood in the Senate like Cicero. He is irreplaceable. --By Joe Klein

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 7, 2003 | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

MITCHELL: Yes, everyone who supports single-rate tax reform also supports a generous family-based personal exemption, which creates effective progressivity without sacrificing the principle of treating all taxpayers equally. But there is a trade-off. The more income you exempt from taxes for lower-income and lower-middle-income people, the higher your rate has to be--or the more revenue you are going to take away from the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Economists: Why Tax Our Patience? | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

MITCHELL: When you have more and more households paying the AMT, it will make people hate the tax system, which politically will build support for tax reform. I will tell you a secret. I am always telling our ideological allies on the Hill, "Don't fix this. Let it fester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Board Of Economists: Why Tax Our Patience? | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Most people are probably unaware that Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter beginning with the cryptic phrase: “Diir Sir, yi hav transkryb’d iur alfabet.” But this very letter from this founding father, innovator and advocate of spelling reform is on display this month in the Houghton Library’s “Alphabetics,” an exhibition of book arts involving unusual and creative thought about letters...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, COTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alphabetic Acrobats Displayed | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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