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...rhetoric from both sides," says Laurence I. Barrett, TIME Washington contributor. "But I don't think it will defeat the bill." The legislation would ban some assault weapons, punish three-time felons with life sentences and add many crimes to the growing list of death-penalty offenses. The price tag for carrying out the law's mandates: $32.4 billion. What's missing from the grab bag is the controversial Racial Justice Act, which would have allowed death-row inmates to appeal their sentences if, using racial statistics, they could indicate bias. That battle was fought, and lost, by the Congressional...
...total price tag for the effort will be inexcess of $20 million, Wolff says...
Cynics in the audience will point out that it would have been much, much cheaper to just pay Payne the $3.7 million and get it over with--after all is said and done, the price tag probably averages more per hostage than the original ransom would have been...
...according to new evidence published by the Centers for Disease Control. Although the figure more than doubles previous estimates, many experts say it still falls short, since it doesn't include such factors as prenatal damage or the effects of secondhand smoke. With those costs included, the price tag could double again. The Coalition on Smoking or Health, which unites the efforts of the American Cancer Society, theAmerican Heart Association and the American Lung Association, argues that the new information furthers the case for a tobacco-tax increase to pay for part of the bill for health-care reform. After...
...then revved it up double-time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until the whole thing sounded the way Fibber McGee's closet clattered, the way a Tex Avery cartoon looks, the way Bart Simpson's mind works...