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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real estate taxes. Even so, neither Flaherty nor his G.O.P. opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is calling for a state tax cut, since Pennsylvania is running a small deficit. Instead, both are proposing constitutional amendments to limit state spending. As U.S. Attorney for Western Pennsylvania, Thornburgh sent some 200 gangsters and corrupt public officials to prison. But one of these, Numbers Racketeer Anthony Grosso, is getting revenge. He is ostentatiously supporting Thornburgh and distributing literature calling Flaherty a "nitwit." Complains Thornburgh: "Sabotage...
...Peking and, not being able to take his heart's delight with him, bequeathed it to the populace. The spectacular park in Soochow bears, after 41/2 centuries, the sardonic name of Humble Administrator's Garden; the grounds were constructed over 16 years by a corrupt official who was anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called Elephant Trunk Hill be cause, with only a slight squint of the imagination, it looks like a mighty pachyderm slurping from the stream. An adorn...
There are a number of reasons for the underrepresentation: the Hispanics' relatively late arrival as a major immigrant group; their reservations about politics, often the result of once having lived under corrupt, autocratic regimes; their traditional preoccupation with family and community affairs rather than broad political issues; outright racial and social discrimination. But the most immediate ?and most easily remedied?reason is their failure to register in sufficient numbers. Of 7 million Hispanics eligible to vote, only 37.8% are registered, vs. 66.7% of the population as a whole...
...summer festival. In it, a string quartet plays beguiling Viennese waltzes. Directly beneath it, on the stage proper, is a butcher shop openly displaying huge gory carcasses hung from steel hooks. The images form a contrapuntal irony. This is a subcutaneous play in which maggots infest the corrupt body of a seemingly sound and smugly self-satisfied society. The true atmosphere of the play is the stench of impending Nazism...
...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...