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Rubin's self-cancellation was part of the complicated game over Kerrey-Portman, a bill that developed out of the bipartisan commission on IRS reform headed by Senate Democrat Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and House Republican Rob Portman of Ohio. More than once over the past year the White House has rushed forward with reform proposals to pre-empt the commission, which issued its report in June. All the same, by mid October, when the House Ways and Means Committee was wrapping up consideration of the bill, the proposal for an outside board of directors was still a red flag...
...former Wall Street bond trader, Rubin remains untroubled by the political conundrum he has created for his bosses Clinton and Al Gore. He spent nearly two hours last Wednesday on the phone with Representative Rob Portman of Ohio, the bill's major Republican sponsor, but the two couldn't bridge what Portman described as their "fundamental philosophical divide." Rubin argues that giving citizens authority over the IRS "raises very serious issues of accountability and conflict of interest." In other words, as another top Administration official put it, "you don't want IRS agents reporting to the chairman of GM." Even...
After seeing Rob Becker in all of his balding, beer-bellied caveman glory, it is extremely difficult to reconcile his stage persona with the sweet, slightly self-conscious voice in which he conducts interviews. He talks much more slowly and deliberately than on stage, but is just as engaging and amusing on the topic of his successful show, Defending the Caveman...
...Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then the swindlers make sweaty lust in the shed. And why do they do it? "To be together," the lovers say. "United in blood and death...
...Rob Becker's Defending the Caveman is probably one of the best explorations of the comical and often frustrating relationships between the sexes. It is hilariously funny, yet at the same time makes one think about their own stereotypes of men and women: Are all men really "self-centered, immature, annoyingly incompetent assholes" or is that just one of those things people...