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• At I.R.S., Unprepared Office Seemed Unclear About the Rules

  Alienated from the broader Internal Revenue Service culture and provided with little direction, specialists in the Cincinnati office struggled with a growing caseload of advocacy groups seeking tax...

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• The double standard in the crazy debate over Angie's new breasts

  Over the past week, the media have been afire with a surprising, unwarranted and unfair "controversy" over Angelina Jolie's announcement of her preventive double mastectomy, undertaken...

• Virginia Governor and Attorney General Linked in Scandal

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• Obama’s trust-in-government deficit

  Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set...

• Obama’s trust-in-government deficit

  Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set...

• 'Who's going to jail' over IRS scandal? Probably nobody.

  House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants to know " who's going to jail " over the IRS scandal. But ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller says no laws were violated when the...

• The Weekend Word: Moving On

  Political news from today's Times and a look at the weekly addresses.

• Best of the Web Today: President Asterisk

  Why the Obama IRS scandal may be worse than "a cancer on the presidency."

• Mr. Abe's 'Third Arrow'

  Japan's gains from monetary policy will be fleeting without major economic reform.

• Shorthand

  *  Karen Handel is running for Senate. * House Ways and Means heard from the IRS. * Conservatives were irked by Obama’s umbrella. * Flake got hit for his gun vote. * And Obama went to Baltimore...

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