Victims of flooding beginning May 3, 2011 in parts of Mississippi (Adams, Bolivar, Claiborne, Coahoma, DeSoto, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Sharkey, Tunica, Warren, Washington, Wilkinson, and Yazoo counties) may qualify for tax relief.

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Warren came to Washington in 2008 to head the congressional panel overseeing the bank bailout program.

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Challenging him is Elizabeth Warren, a liberal Harvard professor known in Washington for designing a new consumer protection law and for the rage she provokes among conservatives.

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But, noting that former Washington Post Co. board members and longtime Graham family friend Warren Buffett was a supporter of paywalls, he left the door open a crack to the possibility of adding one at the Post.

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Two decades ago, this columnist, browsing in a Washington bookshop, happened upon the greatest supply side columnist who ever lived, Warren Brookes.

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