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Some will recall that soon after being released from prison by former South African president F.W. De Klerk, citizen Nelson Mandela did a fundraising tour of the United States. To tremendously understate the case, his effect upon American audiences was dramatic. Few could have been left unimpressed by Mandela's uncanny strength of spirit after 27 years in prison, an amount of time spent under conditions that would have wholly sapped a lesser person...
...Torcaso, a senior citizen who said he has been active with the group Death with Dignity for many years, said he supports euthanasia because all individuals should have the right to choose how to deal with their suffering...
...welcome [Jiang] because it is important for American and Chinese people to set a good relationship," said Yan Yingfei, a Chinese citizen who works in Cambridge...
...individual taxpayer, Kerrey-Portman is a mixed bag. One of its more controversial parts would shift the burden of proof in civil tax court cases from the citizen to the IRS. But of the 120 million individual and corporate returns filed each year, no more than 30,000 end up in tax court. Because settlements are reached in most of those cases, just 1,500 go to trial. At the earlier stages of a dispute, including the audits faced annually by 2 million filers, citizens would still be required to produce records to refute IRS claims. And the change would...
...immigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen. During the '80s, he taught and worked at the University of California at Berkeley and the Hoover Institute at Stanford...