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WASHINGTON: Having reconciled their own versions of the tax bill, Republicans are now headed for the White House with a compromise that looks to have "Return To Sender" scrawled all over it. But TIME's John Dickerson reports it's too early to tell if Republicans are setting themselves up for a veto. "Clinton has said he will veto any provision that requires an indexing of capital gains, but they've got a lot of negotiations to do. The Republicans are deliberately throwing out proposals that are on the extreme edge of what they want so they will have some...
There is a truly new etiquette rule on the books, especially for mobile phones, although even it has a historic precedent. In the old postal system, which charged the recipient rather than the sender, the polite letter writer was supposed to be reasonably sure the communication would be welcome and to compress the missive so as to keep the cost down. Now the polite telephoner is obligated to restrict the number and length of calls to mobile users, knowing the recipient incurs costs...
RETURN TO SENDER...
...sort all forms of digital clutter, including E-mail. Joe's a bore, so relegate his notes to the bottom of the list. Shoot to the top anything from the boss. Primitive versions, called bozo filters, are already available to help deflect some of the more predictable detritus by sender and topic...
...account had been violated that my thoughts could be forwarded to a enormous community of computer users (still mainly academics, professionals and government workers) with no more than a click at the "Forward" icon. A fairly obvious realization. But, in fact, even private communications are often shared by the sender and/or the receiver (ever so tempting if one says something stupid, or funny, or shares some gossip or tales of a recent tryst...