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...last week to a lunch of a grilled salmon sandwich and vegetables, he treated his plate like a battlefield. "We're going to start plotting our strategy like Patton getting ready to cross the Rhine with the Third Army," he announced, discarding his French fries and all but a scrap of bread. It's no surprise that Zone disciples tend to congregate on the coasts. Sears says Middle America will latch on within five years, but others aren't convinced. If Sears can talk Americans who live in the grain belt to forgo bread and cereal...
...Rarely have those who revile the exam--including many of the 1 million students who take it each year--had so much to celebrate: because of new state prohibitions against affirmative action, public universities in California and Texas are struggling to find ways to remain racially diverse. One solution: scrap SATs, since minorities score worse, on average, than whites. The University of California is considering a proposal by its Latino Eligibility Task Force to eliminate SATs from admissions decisions in order to boost Latino enrollment. Public universities in Texas have already dropped standardized tests for many applicants in order...
...Internal Revenue Service. It cuts to images from recent Senate hearings featuring a priest as one of the agency's innocent victims and IRS whistle blowers testifying from behind screens to hide their identity. Then the voice announces that while Republicans want to overhaul the IRS and scrap the tax code, President Clinton and his Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, are defending the status quo. "If you like the IRS," Luntz's fantasy ad continues, "vote Democratic. If you want to send a message, vote Republican...
...conflict with the Administration to last as long as possible. For the past two weeks, G.O.P. majority leader Dick Armey of Texas and Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana have been debating tax-reform alternatives in front of packed auditoriums across the country on what they are calling the "Scrap the Code Tour." They both hope to turn the public's visceral anger at the IRS into a willingness to replace the existing, complex tax code with something simpler. In Armey's case it's a single flat tax on income; in Tauzin's, an across-the-board national sales...
...find that type of music at all appealing, go out and buy Redlight, because it represents everything that is good about ska music. As for the Pietasters' new album, leave it on the shelf. Although they bring with them a much bigger reputation and fan base, the Pietasters should scrap their tunes on Willis and give a listen to the Slackers. They just might learn how to make a great ska album...