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...Federal Government. A while ago, the IRS sent a computerized notice to journalism professor Alann Steen, telling him that if he did not cough up back taxes due on his 1984 return within 30 days, the tax collectors would take him to court. But there was a hitch. For the past 21 months, Steen has been one of the Americans held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon. As such, Steen, 49, seems to qualify for the unofficial IRS policy not to pursue hostages or prisoners of war. That exemption expires once a hostage is freed. It may be enough...
Since the government of State President P.W. Botha formally repealed its pass laws two years ago, South Africa's black workers have been free to go anywhere in the country in search of work. There is a hitch: they are still expected to comply with the Group Areas Act, an apartheid law that compels them to live in segregated nonwhite homelands and townships. For many, the only recourse has been to leave the townships and rent housing from white owners in the cities or erect makeshift shacks on idle farmland, roadsides and in parks and / gardens. The result: as many...
...Discovery mission is successful, the NASA schedule will then call for nine flights next year and another nine in 1990. One hitch: there may not be enough solid rocket fuel. The shortage, which will begin next year, is the result of a series of explosions in early May that destroyed a Nevada plant that produced about 50% of the nation's ammonium perchlorate. The compound constitutes about 70% of the solid fuel used in the shuttle boosters...
Events kept me away from that comp, but byThanksgiving ambition and despair compelled mefinally to hitch on with The Crimson.Fortunately and unfortunately, my mocking disdainand unrepentant snidery enabled me to fit right inat 14 Plympton St. I had been floating throughHarvard for a year and a semester, but TheCrimson provided me with a personal and socialballast
Some managers say that they find the long-term work difficult. But their ability to organize trips to faraway places without a hitch and to keep the Harvard house in order gives them a great deal of satisfaction...