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Waffling Away the Time
THE 30 tto`-rEa of the Bill Clinton
presidence have produced too many
"The% had to use a truck to deliver
it to the IRS ."
-A .xDREIV FERGUSON,
snapshots rather than larger portraits,
too much focus on tactics <strong>and</strong>
The LTasi3iugtonian
too little on a strategic oNervie«', <strong>and</strong> '~
too much of a leader with an infinite j Peace is not the absence of confaith
in his abilin• to recreate or repackage
himself oaer <strong>and</strong> over .
This is a White House that plays
the angles, too often with a Sngerr up
to test the political winds, leaving
mam" voters baffled as to what, if
anything, this President st<strong>and</strong>s for .
Democrats, ranging from Capitol
Hill !iberaLs to the most wise seniors
of the partv in Washington, are despondent
about the President these
davs, [for] after two <strong>and</strong> a half years
there's little confidencc that Bill
Clinton has a set core of convictions .
-ALaFRT R. HUNT,
Wall Street Journal
Argument for a Flat Tax
S1Nca 1954, says Arthur Hall of the
Tax Foundation, the income tax code
has grown from 103 sections to 698 .
The tax code itself is four inches
thick ; additional regulations come to
another nine inches-these are necessary
to explain the first four inches .
Former [RS commissioner Shirley
Petersen sa~s one multinational corporation
recently filcd a tax return
of 21,000 pages in 30 volumes .
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flict, but the ability to cope with
conflict by peaceful means .
-RONALD Rea.GAN, in Ronald
Reagan : The Wisdom <strong>and</strong>
Humor of the Great
Communicator, edited by
FaFDE ucsc J. Ri,an Jx.
Why Not?
OUR KIMD OFNATIOV 7$uln 'es not only
on Gross National Product but on
Gross National Happiness . We arc the
only nation, so far as I know, that has
included among its dedared purposes,
"the pursuit of happiness ."
-DdN'[EL B00fiSTIN, in foreword to
Treasures of Tbe Librarr of Corr
gress, by CFLk RLES A . GoooRVM1t
Tune In to This
"<strong>How</strong> long have you been feeling sluggish?"
T~ F_ ,vitsstvF <strong>and</strong> largely hidden
costs imposed by the [FCC] on the
American consumer <strong>and</strong> economv
should be tolerated no longer . In all
sectors of the telecommunications
industrv-«'ireline, «ireless, broadcast
<strong>and</strong> satellite-the regulatorv system
created by the 1934 Communi-
cations Act is the greatest obstacle to
competition, lower prices, new products
<strong>and</strong> services . The FCC's recent,
rapid growth has occurred at a time
rvhen every sector of the industry has
been growing more competitive .
Americans are entitled to a modern,
efficient, cost-ePfective government
that furthers the traditionai
American values of fair play <strong>and</strong>
competition . A nesr approach is
needed ,•'or a new time . NVithout massive
government regulation, prices
fall, technology develops quickly,
new products <strong>and</strong> services are introduced
<strong>and</strong> jobs are created .
-JEFF EIScSacH, president,
Progress & Freedom Foundation
~eneration Net
ScxF'S Docvti : Pereenrage of college
students who have purchased products
via the Internet, according to a study
by the Hanigan Consulting Group :
0 .3°/a . Percentage who use the Internet
for e-mail only : 71 .7% . Percentage
who plan to subscribe to an online
service upon graduation : 32 .8% .
-Nem York magazine
Yen for Mischief
J.aP:xNESE looking for a saav to misbehave
<strong>and</strong> not get caught bv wives or
other concerned parties have solved
their problem in typical Japanese
fashion, with technolog` .
A Japanese cable radio nen work,
Cable Raciio Usen, offers listeners several
"alibi stations" that transmit hours
of background noise, including the
sound of pachinko pariors <strong>and</strong> train
stations . "Many people ask bar o«ners
to change the channel temporarihfrom music to an alibi station while
thec make a call," says hami Aki,vami,
a spokcswoman for the company .
Other channels offer the sound of
coffee shops, telephone booths <strong>and</strong>
malrjongg games . The train station
has the rumblings of mass transit
complete with announcements like
"watch 1'our feet ." The senice costs
6,000 yen, or S71 a month .
-J .',-VtfiS GoRMdN,
Neiv York Times _Wagaaine ~
Forbes 0 August 14, 1995
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