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...fair, the agents have a hard row to hoe. There's just not a whole lot you can say to someone who not only refuses to pay taxes but doesn't believe your agency has the constitutional right to collect them, a defense that the resigned IRS guys say they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Problems At the IRS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

Experience prosecuting cases as the Defense Department's general counsel and as chair of the 60,000-member District of Columbia Bar prepared Gorelick for the post, but becoming Reno's chief adviser during turbulent times meant having to hoe a tough...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Laying Down the Law | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...Income': I just got in bed wit dee hoe and income my wife...

Author: By Rachel L. Barenbaum, | Title: Harvard Has Ebonic Fever | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...people living in countries polluted by mines. Angola is one such nation, and Jo Fox, a Red Cross official based in South Africa, recently returned from Angola with graphic memories of the damage mines can do. "You see a woman working in the fields," she says, "trying to hoe her crops, and she has no legs. She is up to her waist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND MINES: CHEAP, DEADLY AND CRUEL | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...World War I New York rubbed off on him, and none shows in his work. The only painting in this show that could be guessed to show an industrial worker is Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947; and the bald man is posed like Millet's peasant with a hoe, raking grass outside his house in the sunlight, not hewing at the coal face in darkness. No hints of class conflict intrude on Hopper's vision of American society, which he painted one isolated person at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: UNDER THE CRACK OF REALITY | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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