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...purse, and proudly produced a small box. Mystified, I held out my hand and she placed a heavy gold medal in it. Upon closer inspection I realized I was holding a Nobel Peace Prize, and the the lady I was speaking with was none other than Mairead Corrigan, one of the founders of the Peace People movement in Ireland. She laughingly told me that she had once unsuccessfully tried to get out of a parking ticket by showing it to a policeman, and then answered my embarrassingly witless, though wellintentioned, questions about Ireland...
...month later, the Boston City Council endorsed a resolution calling on Harvard to increase its payments to the city in order to ease "the undue hardship on city taxpayers." Rev. Thomas D. Corrigan, co-chairman of the Boston Fair Share tax coalition, feels the resolution gives his group more credibility, but he points out that the City Council has no authority to force Harvard into making the payments...
...reasoning being that businesses can afford to make higher payments than homeowners. This practice was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in 1974 with the accompanying directive that cities and towns in Massachusetts assess all property at 100 per cent of its fair market value. This practice, Corrigan said, doubles or triples taxes on homeowners, and falls particularly hard on those with fixed incomes. If passed the Classification Amendment would make it constitutional for cities to assess property at less than full market value, and would also allow them to use different rates for different classes of property, such...
After Fair Share's campaign for the Classification Amendment ends in November, Corrigan said the group will again be looking to "see how places like Harvard can be invited, urged, coerced, or embarrassed to take this issue more seriously instead of refusing to meet with people...
Williams and Corrigan believe the peace movement is going in the right direction. "When the movement started, it was only emotion," Corrigan said last week. "Now it is hard work." Among projects that the Nobel money will help fund are neighborhood cooperatives, efforts to find housing and employment to dissuade people from resorting to terrorism, and other social programs'. Williams and Corrigan also cite a statistic that argues for their success: since their crusade was launched 14 months ago, violence in Northern Ireland has been cut by half...