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Perusing a recent edition of the Washington Post, readers may have suspected a proofreaders' revolt. Not so, says the paper, just a regular teaser to test your attention. An earlier one said, "Oops, Wrong Section...
...back centuries, but the part that matters here began in 1991. Buoyed by Saddam's humiliating defeat in Kuwait that year, they rebelled, hoping at last to gain the separate homeland that has perpetually eluded more than 20 million ethnic Kurds spread across Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. The revolt failed when Saddam turned his surviving corps of helicopter gunships on them, and they fled in despair into the northern mountains...
...suburbanites. Then inflation pushed them into ever higher marginal brackets. That immense new middle class began focusing on what government took from them, a chunk of their paychecks, instead of the things it gave them, like student loans and government-backed mortgages. In 1978 California produced the tax revolt that culminated in Proposition 13, a 57% cut in property taxes. That same year Kemp and Delaware Senator William Roth Jr. proposed a 30% across-the-board federal...
...election. Lebed turned up at his new office at dawn and told a group of journalists he would sort things out. "The only thing we have accomplished in five years was holding these elections," he said, "and now there has been an attempt to disrupt the second round. Any revolt will be put down, and harshly...
...hardly unique. Thousands of frustrated flushers have joined what is turning into a low-flow-toilet revolt. In Maryland homeowners are picking up large-capacity models at yard sales. Affluent Angelenos are buying two toilets: a new 1.6-gal. low-flow for show and an old 3.5-gal. tank that they install after the building inspector leaves. "It's been my biggest call-back," says contractor David Leonard of Indianapolis, Indiana. One customer required seven trips to service a perpetually clogged low-flow. "I don't know what this guy eats," says Leonard, "but we keep having to plunge...