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...Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year in stock profits but charge his workers full tax on their wages. Says Taylor: "It's nuts...
...rich man to enter heaven. When it comes to entering the White House, wealth still has its advantages. So many, in fact, that American politics has become a rich person's game as never before. In addition to Forbes, the '96 G.O.P. presidential field includes Morry Taylor, a multimillionaire tire manufacturer. And billionaire Ross Perot may run again...
Jones brought his old bud Switzer, the former Oklahoma coach, out of a five-year retirement two years ago to replace Jimmy Johnson, who had led the Cowboys to wins in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII, only to tire of Jones' meddling. The real hero in the changeover, though, has been Aikman, who has stood behind Switzer even though it must strike him as ironic that he is playing for the man who not only kept him on the bench at Oklahoma but also licensed the athletic-dorm mayhem that ultimately forced Aikman to transfer to UCLA...
...these inabilities on the trip to Vegas. In the car, Bobby panics because to the evident lack of interesting events. He decides to reenact a scene where Amin yells at George, abandoning his entire premise for the movie. But the reenactment sounds contrived and Bobby despairs. The bumpy and tire-some car ride finally ends in their Las Vegas hotel suite...
...whites is a philosophy of self-discipline and self-reliance. During a recent speech, Farrakhan told the story of Deletha Word, a black woman who dented the car of another motorist, also black, on the Belle Isle Bridge over the Detroit River. The driver allegedly beat Word with a tire iron, then watched as she flung herself to her death off the bridge. "She wasn't killed by Mark Fuhrman," orated Farrakhan. "She wasn't killed by the oppressor. She was killed by her so-called Brother because he was mad she had bumped into his shiny...