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Revenge is a dish best served cold -- and on White House china. While drafting its recently submitted budget, the Bush Administration secretly proposed that the IRS target its stringent audits not on wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could...
...fixed-wing airplanes until a permanent cease-fire agreement is signed. Because Iraq's roads and bridges are so chewed up, Baghdad is allowed to use helicopters. But using the choppers to blast rebels, U.S. officials said, violated the spirit of the understanding. President Bush said the issue might stall the withdrawal of American forces from the gulf. His admonition followed an earlier threat by the U.S. and Britain to attack any Iraqi units that used chemical weapons against the rebels...
Chaos looms as its contentious republics push toward secession -- and civil war. -- In South Africa, fear and intrigue stall the trial of Winnie Mandela...
...couple of instances, come upon a pathos deeper than mere appetite, and reveal, beneath the plump lubriciousness, regrets and surprising pleasures. Characters find themselves reproved by expectation, exiles on all fronts. At their best, his stories have the everyday magic of tall tales overheard at the local tea stall. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that the neighbor who runs away with the Irish fireman's wife in one yarn -- to an ashram in Pondicherry, no less -- goes by the name of Scheherazade...
...Defense Department has seized upon the gulf crisis as an excuse to expand the 1,000-sq.-mi. Fort Irwin, a high-tech desert-training facility in Southern California, by some 390 sq. mi. Environmentalists pledge to stall any such action...