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...team is that none of the fixes they are considering are easy or cheap. Push back the phase-out of benefits to higher income levels, and the number of families receiving tax credits and subsidies explodes. Increase the size of standard deductions and child tax credits, and watch revenues shrink. Reduce the number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better off. "It's a lot easier to talk about in general terms than it is to design policies that meet those objectives," says Robert Reischauer, former head of the nonpartisan Congressional...
...being shed and tributes read following the crash of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane, a troubling question became hard to ignore: Should he have taken off that night? In a family famous for its appetite for risk, Kennedy was far from the most reckless. Yet he didn't shrink from pushing the edge of his personal envelope. Last Friday he may have pushed too far, as a deadly combination of too much airplane and too green a pilot apparently proved disastrous...
...board, though. The effort to preserve an authentic Kennedys-and-Roosevelts-slept-here feel in the dorms has created wide discrepancies in room size and quality. Three months from now you could be showing your quarters to a photographer from House Beautiful. Or you could be consulting a shrink about your newly-acquired claustrophobia...
...NATO continues to shrink from any change in its carefully calibrated "Goldilocks" air campaign--not too hard, not too soft. The chief culprits appeared to reside in Washington, where "there are people in the military who are putting the brakes on," says a U.S. diplomat...
Stars? They were lined up in the Broadhurst's wings like a queue for The Phantom Menace. Steve Martin played a nasty shrink to Stockard Channing's frazzled patient. Nathan Lane and Swoosie Kurtz as two actors waiting for an opening-night review ran their fingernails under each other's egos. Betty Buckley as a modern-media Medea got lectured by a toughlove angel (Whoopi Goldberg). Stunning Susan Sarandon was a fretful Southern mama trying to marry off her shy, sly son (delicious David Hyde Pierce), who had eyes only for his glass menagerie of cocktail swizzle sticks...