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In the U.S. alone, the states and the federal government make some $30 billion a year off smokers, and this isn't even counting the savings from shorter life spans. And this is one of the most regressive of taxes; those who pay are for the most part people on...
SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, former deputy chairman of Britain's Tory party and best-selling novelist, to four years in prison; for perjury and obstruction of justice; in London. After asking friend Ted Francis to support a fake alibi to counter a newspaper's claim that he'd had an...
He also suggested that other newspapers adopt the policy of the San Jose Mercury News, which allows subjects of stories to withdraw or revise a quote in certain circumstances. The rule does not apply to public figures, but to “naive, ordinary citizens who didn’t...
If the bill isn't finished this week, majority leader Tom Daschle has threatened, he will keep the Senate in session through the July 4 recess. But Lott wants to string out the debate so HMO and insurance groups can get more attack ads on the air and G.O.P. Senators...
Instead of choosing between the Frist or Nickles plan, the White House and Lott settled on a hodgepodge of amendments grafted from both plans that Republicans threw at the Democratic bill to pick it apart. Lott also tried for a while to string out debate on the measure to give...