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...Shakespeare to 10th and 12th graders. Her leather bag was stuffed with copies of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I remember wondering, as I reached for the bright yellow booklet, what my mom, an inveterate and notoriously demanding teacher, would want with what were commonly known as "cheater books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Mr. Cliffs Notes | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

What matters most is that in pardoning a fugitive tax cheater who flouted the U.S. judicial system for two decades and who got richer by trading with Iran, Clinton used an absolute power of the office in a way no President had before. U.S. history has seen its share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can We Miss You If You Never Go Away? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Right now, there is a vague presumption among Americans that Gore is the down-and-dirty cheater and Bush is the honest cheater. Bush is using tactics we all are used to, sabre-rattling press conferences and thuggish spokespeople and vague threats to do something really nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Clean Cheating and Dirty Pool | 11/24/2000 | See Source »

...Yesalis is resentful that the I.O.C. makes a big show of its "war on drugs" while keeping in place a system that is not unlike baseball's in assuring that the stars--the moneymakers--continue to appear clean. Shorter is resentful that, even when this system stumbles upon a cheater, hypocrisy rules at the end of the day. He says "it absolutely stinks" that Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor will compete in Sydney. The world-record holder tested positive for cocaine at last summer's Pan Am Games and was banned for two years by the International Amateur Athletic Federation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Are Drugs Winning the games? | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...more punctual. Congressional defunding of the IRS' auditing budget, combined with a dwindling staff and a series of complex new regulations enacted by the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 have led to decreases in auditing and less enforcement of penalties for delinquent taxpayers. It's a cheater's dream come true...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Taxing the Best Work of the IRS | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

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