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	Internet Tax Issue Unresolved Later this year, Congress will decide whether to extend or make permanent the current moratorium on Internet sales taxes. By Ron Chepesiuk The 107th Congress will deal with many important business issues — the high cost of health insurance, the future of the estate tax, consumer information privacy. However, none will have such significance as the question of an Internet tax. COMPLETE STORY...		Alien Land Laws: Still on the Books (in National News) Hate Crimes Galvanize U.C. Davis Students (in Bay Area News) Tan Dun: From Hunan to Hollywood (in A&E) Emil Amok: The New Corporate Ethnic Media (in Opinion)

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After Estrada: The Philippines in Transition Will investor confidence recover with the economy? by Ron Chepesiuk January 22, around noontime in Washington, D.C., 54-year-old George W. Bush, Jr. took the oath of office that made him president of the United States. Meanwhile, at noon local time in Manila, Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, one year Bush’s junior, also took an oath of office, pledging to “accept the privilege and responsibility to act as president of the Philippines.” COMPLETE STORY...

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