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...world that you describe . . . it's like the land of Oz, and you are the wizards." Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr. delivered that blistering rebuke last week to Michael Murphy, deputy commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. What provoked Barnard was Murphy's upbeat assessment of his agency's zeal for rooting out cases of misconduct among its own employees. But dozens of current and former IRS workers painted a different and disturbing picture of the agency in three days of testimony before the House Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs subcommittee...
What set the stage for a backlash was the deregulation of such industries as airlines and broadcasting. While the loosening of rules typically brought consumers lower prices and wider choices, the process reduced governmental monitoring of business. In its free-market zeal, the Reagan Administration cut the budgets and staffs of the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other supervisory agencies. In a Yankelovich poll conducted for TIME this year, nearly 80% of the Americans surveyed said the Government sides too often with business when it comes to environmental issues...
...increased power in the hands of the pragmatic Rafsanjani, who is also Commander in Chief of the Iranian armed forces. In the final months of Khomeini's life, the spotlight also turned on his son, Ahmed Khomeini, 43, who has lately been increasingly visible in public life. In his zeal and rigid ideology, Ahmed appears to be very much his father...
Hollywood's zeal mirrors an explosion in environmental activism throughout the world. Stories about the burning rain forest, global warming and the Exxon Valdez spill have left people feeling a loss of ecological innocence. "It's an issue you can't escape -- even if you live in Beverly Hills," says Josh Baran, a Los Angeles public relations consultant...
...Party). Some ; Western experts are uncomfortable with Hekmatyar's plan to turn Afghanistan into a Muslim state governed by shari'a (Islamic law), which could take an anti-American course. Should Washington be supporting someone with the potential to be a U.S. enemy? Defenders say Hekmatyar, despite his Islamic zeal, is also a pragmatist. But abetting someone with a reputation for ruthlessness in pursuit of power could be incompatible with Washington's goal of peace and reconciliation...