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...kind of banter that only the most verkrampte, or hard-line, Afrikaner would find amusing. But when Andries Treurnicht and Jaap Marais, the leaders of two of South Africa's right-wing political parties, shared a platform in Pretoria earlier this year to protest the government's repeal of laws banning interracial sex and marriage, their racist exchanges produced waves of laughter from the conservative audience...
...some areas, the House panel's plan is the same as that put forth by the Administration. Both, for example, want to repeal the investment tax credit, which currently enables companies to take immediate deductions of as much as 10% of spending on plant and equipment. Both proposals would also curtail the accelerated cost recovery system, which now enables businesses to depreciate their assets rapidly...
...alternative legislative approach to the insurance crisis is tighter regulation of insurance companies. At the federal level, trial lawyers and consumer advocates are pressing for repeal of the insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws. That exemption allows insurers to share information and, according to their opponents, engage in collusive premium-setting policies that would be illegal in any other industry. In state legislatures, many proposed bills would enlarge the authority of insurance commissioners to block arbitrary policy cancellations and gargantuan premium increases. The Florida department of insurance has written a proposed bill that would require insurers to disclose what...
...Committee, DeLay has recently been facing renewed questions about more improper dealings. In January, GOP leadership rammed through legislation altering ethics rules—changes which many Democrats felt served only to protect DeLay from a full-blown ethics investigation. Last Wednesday, however, the Republican-dominated House voted to repeal these changes. We applaud the Republican decision to stop defending DeLay from his deserved investigation through obstructive legislation, and for their own good we hope that Republicans will take the further step of relieving DeLay of his post as Majority Leader...
...view penthouse garden in 1995 and, pointing to the shrinking waterway, "gave me a scolding and instructed me to do something about it." In 1997, in the waning days of British rule, the local Legislative Council passed the Harbour Protection Ordinance. The incoming postcolonial administration tried, but failed, to repeal the law, and in 2002 pressed ahead with a plan to build a mostly underground highway from Central to Causeway Bay through reclaimed land. Chu spent nearly $1 million of his own money on a legal challenge to the scheme, and in January 2004, the Court of Final Appeal struck...