The ads, airing in Washington, D.C., Arizona, Iowa, and New Hampshire, represent the latest volley in an increasingly heated political debate over a plan to repeal the Internal Revenue Code by 2001. The GOP views the bill as a way to build pressure for passage of tax reform, and also to cast Democrats as defenders of a complex and bewildering tax code. Slowly, carefully, he signs his name on a short white form. The signature etches into the legal record the formal declaration that Reyes, an unmarried man, is the biological father of Carla Reyes-Osoy and cements a legal link between father and daughter that will govern the rest of their lives. White House aides gave no answers.
Students apply to hospital programs, which in turn select students they wish to interview.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, created by a nervous Legislature in 1956, two years after federally ordered school integration, employed dozens of agents and informants to ferret out gossip, tall tales and, sometimes, facts about those involved in civil rights and voter registration drives in the state. Colorado and Georgia each claim three of the fastest-growing counties in the nation. The biggest population jump from 1996 to 1997 was in Colorado's Douglas County, which surged 12.9 percent. That was in Alaska's Ketchikan Gateway Borough County, which lost 4.6 percent of its residents.