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The Tax Reform Act of 1986, which elimi- nated a host of valuable tax loopholes, rep- resented a defeat of the special interests that many analysts thought would never happen. Can it be that special interests have lost much of their renowned influ- ence in Washington? Exactly, argues Pe- terson, a Harvard political scientist....