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...Ayatullah Khomeini's blind sense of vengeance sanctioned the seizure; and the hostages suffered their own blindness, held in solitary and the dark. All year long, photographs of American heads in blindfolds became icons of the crime. Now the U.S. itself is like those blindfolded prisoners as they unwrap their bindings and get used to the light: Where are we? Where have we been...
...meal supposedly came with bread and butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...
...interested in preserving his stature as a curiosity and in circulating yet more parts of his legend. He proudly points to a story run in the Harvard Independent some time ago which whimsically described the excavation of Memorial Hall 2000 in the future. At one point, the archaeologists unwrap a mummy that immediately gets up and starts proctoring exams...
...last week got an early Christmas present from Denis Healey, the Labor government's stern Chancellor of the Exchequer and previously a champion of austerity. Presenting his second minibudget of the year to a tune of increasing optimism over North Sea oil, Healey abandoned his Scrooge-like posture to unwrap a package of tax cuts and state-pension increases worth $1.75 billion this fiscal year (which ends next March) and $3.5 billion in the following fiscal year. Under the proposals, a married couple earning $8,750 a year will pay $95 less income tax; Britons will be allowed to spend...
Ford had planned to follow tradition and unwrap his tax proposals in his State of the Union address in January But that timetable was torn up last week, when Democratic Congressman Al Ullman's Ways and Means Committee seemed to be making fast progress on a complicated package of tax reforms. Beyond revising the tax laws, Ullman expected to extend most provisions of the "temporary" tax cut that had been enacted earlier this year to spur the lagging economy. These lower rates are scheduled to expire on Jan. 1, and without action before then, withholding rates will revert...