Word: taxman
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SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the PISCATAWAY BOARD OF EDUCATION and SHARON TAXMAN, a white business teacher who sued the board for reverse discrimination after she was laid off in favor of a black colleague with equal seniority; for $433,500; in Piscataway...
...Diana and the Taxman Princes William and Harry face a massive tax bill as they inherit their mother?s wealth...
...Girl (Work Group); the hip-hop-charged star Capleton with his album I-Testament (Def Jam); and trip-hop-tinged newcomer Finley Quaye with his debut CD Maverick a Strike (550 Music). A much more established star, South African traditionalist Lucky Dube, also has a new CD out, Taxman (Shanachie). The fact that reggae, like a nation secure enough to welcome new immigrants, is able to nurture such a varied group of up-and-comers is a sign of the genre's vitality. Certainly none of these young lions can yet claim to head the pride. But a roar...
...affirmative-action case of the moment is Piscataway v. Taxman, now before the Supreme Court. White teacher Sharon Taxman claims her school board violated her rights when it made a racially based decision to lay her off rather than an equally qualified black colleague. While Piscataway is important, and will doubtless reveal a lot about the Supreme Court's thinking about the constitutional limits on racial preferences, the court's decision is likely to be limited to the narrow context of layoffs. If the Michigan case reaches the high court--and many conservatives are betting it will--it could result...
...learned that House minority leader Dick Gephardt was planning to support the bill. That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with a vote...