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Huge marijuana fields found
Drug Enforcement officers are "actively investigating" the discoveries of two marijuana fields in Congo Town, Andros.Superintendent-in-charge of the Drug Enforcement Unit Raymond Gibson said that the first field was found around 12:40 p.m. on Monday by OPBAT and police officers on the island who acted on information they received.
"They went to a bushy area some distance from the Congo Town Airport where they found a marijuana field with a quantity of plants ranging from three to eight feet in height," Mr Gibson said. "There they were also able to uproot over 4,000 plants."
Acting on additional information, Mr Gibson said the officers found yet another marijuana field on Tuesday, about a mile from where the first one was discovered.
This one, he added, also had a quantity of marijuana plants ranging in height from six inches to seven feet.
Dominicans accuse the Bahamian authorities of mistreatment
SANTO DOMINGO.- Seven Dominicans who had traveled to the Bahamas and remained under arrest for 46 days denounced that their belongings and money were taken by the authorities in that island. Franklin Vélez told the newspaper Diario Libre that as soon as they arrived at the Bahamas airport, several police approached them and told them that their presence was not pleasing and that they were immediately handcuffed and locked up in a jail. The Dominicans were sentenced to 2 years in prison by a Bahamas court, according to Franklin Vélez, who added that each one was fined 4,000 dollars for entering that territory illegally. Vélez, who spoke for the group, said that they left Dominican Republic with a legal visa of the Bahamas and boarded a commercial flight to that country.Diversions for week of 07-06-2006
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"I talk to a new client interested in expatriating every week. Many people can't pay the federal tax rate and live in the style they want." So said Francis Mirabello, the head of the personal law department at the Philadelphia office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, speaking at a Bermuda conference on offshore money early this fall.Expatriating? Give up U.S. citizenship? Who in his right mind would give up his U.S. citizenship? Lots of people. You could practically fill a Boeing 747 with well-heeled U.S. citizens who have taken on foreign citizenship rather than submit to what Learned Hand called "enforced exactions" at a level that amounts to virtual confiscation. The exodus may speed up under an Administration that campaigned for office on a tax-the-rich platform.
In 1981 Ronald Reagan lowered taxes.
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WIMBLEDON, England - Mario Ancic made no tactical errors Wednesday at Wimbledon. He attacked his opponent, maintained his focus and hit some dazzling shots that couldn't have been rendered with more precision had they been diagrammed on a clean sheet of paper.The pity was that Ancic's opponent was Roger Federer, who has been without peer on Wimbledon's grass these last three years and found himself operating in that sublime zone that's reserved for sporting history's greats.
Against any other foe, Ancic's performance surely would have won him a spot in Friday's semifinals. Against Federer, all it got him was three measly break points (only one of which he managed to convert) and a straight-set ouster from the All England club, as the Croat fell, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4.
"He played unbelievable today," said Ancic, 22, the last player to beat Federer at Wimbledon (first round, 2002).