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...conservative and Chirac ally who heads the Parliament's finance committee. Méhaignerie told the French daily Le Figaro that the government should not "take the risk of being subject to the slogan everything for the rich." Instead he suggested a big injection of funds into a bonus scheme for unemployed people who take jobs. His comments reflect concern among right-wing politicians, and not just in France, that fiddling with inheritance tax will play badly with voters still accustomed to associating the tax with the very rich. In Germany, for example, taxpayer lobbyists argue that the national inheritance...
Meanwhile, at the cost of infuriating parts of her own, progressive base, Pelosi has made a number of pragmatic, tactical moves to better position the Democrats for November. When Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was found with $90,000 in his freezer from an apparent bribery scheme, Pelosi immediately had him tossed out of his seat on the House Ways and Means Committee. The strongly liberal Congressional Black Caucus was incensed that one of its members had been punished before he had even been indicted. But Pelosi's action helped rebut the G.O.P.'s contention that Democrats had as many corruption...
...Indicted in May for allegedly orchestrating a statewide patronage scheme, Fletcher won a courthouse reprieve earlier this month when a special judge ruled that he can't be prosecuted for official misconduct while in office. But State Senator David Williams, a fellow Republican, pointedly notes that the ruling does raise "the specter of impeachment...
...More than a dozen of Fletcher's aides were indicted last year on charges that they helped orchestrate a hiring scheme for low-level state jobs based on political support. Fletcher was criticized from all sides when he issued a blanket pardon covering every member of his administration, save himself, for actions related to the indictments. But outright challenges to his leadership did not materialize until this summer, following his own indictment in May in connection with the case...
...basic units of matter and energy not as particles but as minuscule, vibrating loops and snippets of stuff resembling string, which turn out to exist not just in our familiar four dimensions of space and time but in 10 or more dimensions. Bizarre as it seemed, this scheme appeared on first blush to explain why particles have the characteristics they do. As a side benefit, it also included a quantum version of gravity and thus of relativity. Just as important, nobody had a better idea. So lots of physicists, including Woit and Smolin, began working...