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...plucked him from the Hanna-Barbera animation stables. "Stunningly clever" is the way Darnell describes MacFarlane's initial pitch, at which the wunderkind performed all the voices himself. "Two weeks later we ordered 13 episodes, and Seth became a star," says Darnell. A seven-minute presentation reel the network took to last May's "up-front" screenings for advertisers, he adds, "was far and away the funniest thing we showed...
...True, some tax rates have fallen. And tax reform last year gave us tax credits for education and tax deductions for long-term savings. But new targeted breaks total maybe $20 billion, which pales next to Americans' annual tax burden of nearly $3 trillion. In 1998 it took the combined incomes of everybody in the U.S. through May 10 to pay all taxes owed for the year--the latest "tax freedom" day ever, says the Tax Foundation, which figures the date will be even later this year...
...House Judiciary Committee, is tidier and seems to have a lot less fun. In order to finance the Arkansas Project, an effort to find something dirty on Bill Clinton, Scaife coughed up roughly the same sort of money that Flynt offered in the advertisement he took to flush out bimbos with Republican leanings. Scaife was using tax-free foundation money, which simply reflects the fact that Republicans tend to be better at personal finance--although, now that I think of it, maybe Flynt can prove to the IRS that for a man in his line of work, payment for dirty...
DIED. ANATOLI RYBAKOV, 87, Russian author; in New York City. Rybakov started writing stories part time while driving a truck. His children's book The Dirk, published in 1950, was an immediate success and admired by Stalin. On the other hand, it took years for him to get his epic novel Children of the Arbat published. When the work--which freely discusses Stalin's terrors--finally appeared in 1986, it sold more than 1 million copies in the Soviet Union...
Freed from the confines of the NIH, Venter took an offer from a venture capitalist to head his own research facility, which he named The Institute for Genomic Research--TIGR, or "tiger." The private sector gave him the resources to find genes as fast as he could...