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...last week some 120 moneybags, including the Rockefellers, Bill Gates (through his father, who runs Gates' foundation) and financier George Soros, went public with a petition seeking, of all things, to preserve the estate tax. This is high ground, all right. The estate tax, which President Bush wants to wipe out, stands to cut the fortunes of these rich folks by billions when they pass away...
...torn province of Kosovo, where she was sold for a second time to two burly Albanian bar owners named Nazif and Luli. They forced her to have sex with as many as four clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor to a client, smiling," Tatiana recalls. "It was impossible to disobey." Under constant supervision, even in the bathroom, she once asked a foreign client, a Swiss consultant, for help. The man offered the bar owner $5,000 for Tatiana's freedom...
Lift your napkin, wipe your chin, and above all, protect your pants...
When the new Harvard president takes office, ideally the "candidate" who has been a member of the Harvard community from its "pre-Core" days to the present, we advise him or her not to wipe clean the undergraduate curricular slate but rather to inventory the strengths and successes of the current Core program, in theory and in practice, and to build upon them. The Core is an indispensable feature of the Harvard undergraduate experience and must be preserved...
...pharmaceutical firms see local manufacture and so-called parallel imports--where other countries buy the copycat generics instead of the brand name--as a threat they are battling to wipe out. They feel that they alone should not have to pick up the tab for Africa. They want to stanch drug pirates who might make worthless fakes or flood drugs onto the black market. And they fear that making AIDS therapies cheaper for Africans will prompt lucrative Western markets to demand lower prices as well...