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Sherry Meadows, a tax assessor in Mount Vernon, Ill., first considered long-term insurance in 1992 as her 50th birthday made her ponder old age. But she put it off, shocked by the high premiums and thinking she and husband John had some time. But by 1997, he was found to have Alzheimer's. Now Sherry's life is about loss--of John, 56, and of life as she knew it. Only work interrupts her constant vigil. There are no nights off from tending to John since she can't afford the $125-a-day fee for what has come...
...though, Burks was silenced, fatally shot in the head on his hog farm while readying his pumpkin patch for an annual visit from schoolchildren. After a few days' search and a night of questioning, police announced an arrest and a murder charge. The suspect: Byron Looper, the local tax assessor--and more important, Burks' opponent in the upcoming election...
...computer program promises to help change all that. Developers of the Intelligent Essay Assessor claim it can grade essays as well as a human professor--but far more quickly and reliably...
BORN: Feb. 14, 1945, Beaumont EDUCATION: Lamar U, B.S., 1968, M.Ed., 1974 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Floyd; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Teacher; tax assessor-collector POLITICAL CAREER: Chairman, Jefferson County Democratic Party, 1972-74; Tax assessor-collector, Jefferson County, 1977-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 21578, Beaumont...
Experienced auctiongoers understood that the estimated sales prices in the Sotheby's catalog reflected an assessor's evaluation of fair market value, i.e., what an object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...