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Some blame inflation, which has eroded real living standards and cramped the traditional assumption that hard work would pay off in an improving future. Some blame the inflationary phenomenon known as "bracket creep," by which almost every increase in salary, even if it merely keeps one even with the rise in the cost of living, puts the recipient in a higher tax bracket and thus brings a relatively greater increase in taxes owed. These are economic reasons, and tax evasion obviously has major economic roots fed not only by inflation but by recession. Yet tax evasion is also a moral...
...decisive match for the team standings came in the second doubles bracket. In the final. Rob Loud and Warren Grossman rallied to top Texas's Levine and Tom Fontana...
...Crimson easily dumped the host school, the University of Minnesota, and Arizona (16th in the preseason ratings), and barely squeaked past a powerful Texas team (which placed third at the tourney in L.A.), 27-25. Harvard won three singles divisions and one doubles bracket in the tourney. The Crimson also placed finalists in five of the seven singles matchups...
...singles bracket, Crimson senior Harvard Sands knocked off two nationally tanked players. In the semifinal, he survived seven match points for a 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 victory over Arizona's Paul Chamberlain. "It's one of those things that happens so rarely." Sands said of his comeback. "I really started playing well, going for some lines, making some of the best lobs of my life...
Utah defeated Harvard, 7-2, in the consolation bracket of the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association National Team Championships in Los Angeles. Harvard's Howard Sands, who defeated the number-one collegian Thursday, lost to 21st-ranked Greg Holmes, 6-1, 6-3, and Warren Grossman fell to Utah's Christian Schultes at the number-two singles spot...