Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even with the tax hike battle raging around him, Ronald Reagan retains the serenity and confidence that have been key ingredients of his amiable style. En route to Billings, Mont., last week to appear at a Republican rally, Reagan spent nearly an hour chatting with Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey aboard Air Force One about the rewards and penalties of the presidency. Sidey's report...
...criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. "But compared to narcotics cases, for example, there is usually a lot more evidence." Predicts Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Robinson, whose San Francisco office has launched major investigations: "When the arrests and indictments come, they will come en masse...
...Antibes, only a few miles from Nice, for the past 17 years. But the French will not be able to thrill to Greene's charges in his new nonfiction book entitled J'Accuse: Portrait of a Delinquent in His Protected Milieu. The appellate court of Aix-en-Provence ruled early this month in a rare decision that the book could not be sold in France or even brought into the country because it was libelous of one of the people mentioned in the story...
While Democratic Senators voted en masse against the Republican tax package, some of them nonetheless supplied the votes to retain its key element, the withholding by the IRS of 10% of all interest and dividends earned by individuals who have savings accounts or own stocks. This withholding would be applied against taxes owed during the year. Pushed hard by Republicans Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Majority Leader Howard Baker as a way to rebut critics who claim that Reagan's tax and spending cuts unfairly hurt the poor, the proposal was strongly opposed by banks...
...precisely because of Dershowitz's fame and flamboyance that it's unfortunate that the refuses to confront squarely the issue of appropriate legal style. Instead, he only suggests it fleetingly, as in his en passant digs at media hype. The Best Defense catalogues the 43-year-old professor's most intriguing courtroom battles, emphasizing his suspicion that he has suffered several key setbacks because judges resented his aggressive legal tactics and clever machinations. On the home front, style has also cost Dershowitz points. Much of Harvard considers him a crackpot genius. Pronouncements like last spring's out-of-the-blue...