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...government soon became the enemy. Although Giancana boasted that he fixed votes, funneled thousands into the 1960 Democratic campaign and picked up girlfriend Judith Campbell from J.F.K., the Kennedys forgot their debts to the Mob. In 1961 New Orleans crime boss Carlos Marcello was deported in Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. An outraged Giancana began monitoring the private lives of both brothers. Along the way, the book says, Marilyn Monroe was murdered in a Mafia attempt to blow the lid off her affair with R.F.K. When that didn't play out, Giancana spent a year planning the assassination...
Just across the border to the south, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was reported to be rushing reinforcements for yet another possible bloody crackdown on his country's nearly 4 million Kurds. Iraqi Kurds are worried that Saddam may be planning to mount a full-scale offensive to regain his control over their territories, which he lost after the gulf...
...Harvard, the crackdown will only affect about one fifth of all students on financial aid. According to Director of Financial Aid James Miller, most students do not received enough money in grants to have tax laws apply to their...
...light of these other changes, Harvard administrators say the tax crackdown could further complicate a financial aid process that has already left many students mystified...
Many students are still unaware of the IRS crackdown and of what taxes they may owe. And even those administrators and students otherwise in the know are unsure how the tax law applies to student jobs that, while generating income, are also part of financial aid packages...