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SURPRISE!!!

From The Associated Press, 5/20/03:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030520_1641.html

Dividend Tax Cut Cost More Than Thought

Due to Error by Tax Experts, Senate's Dividend Tax Cut Costs Billions
More Than Expected

"Due to an error by congressional tax experts, a temporary suspension
of taxes on dividends would cost billions more than senators thought
when they voted last week to incorporate it into bill cutting taxes
$350 billion over the coming decade....."

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From The New York Daily News, 5/20/03:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/85219p-77786c.html

Post writer borrows a page from Blair
By BEN WIDDICOMBE
and LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

"Holy kangaroo - the New York Post has its own plagiarizing scandal!
After writing gleefully about The New York Times' Jayson Blair
scandal, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid admitted yesterday that it
published a plagiarized piece last week.
The Post identified its bad boy as Robin Gregg, a freelancer who the
paper's brass said 'fessed up to stealing a story from that paragon of
journalism the National Enquirer. "

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From The New York Times, 5/20/03:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/20/international/worldspecial/20IRAQ.html

"An estimated 10,000 Shiite Muslims marched in a demonstration in
Baghdad on Monday, demanding that the United States withdraw from
Iraq.

The noisy but peaceful rally was the largest protest against America's
presence in Iraq since the war's end."

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http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0519-03.htm
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
Move Over, Right Wing Radio - the Liberals Are Coming
by Thom Hartmann