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...much for all those pledges of civility. So much for "changing the tone." So much for "a kinder, gentler" - wait a minute. That...
...enforcement efforts won't be anywhere near as brutal as those that came to light during the 1997 to '98 congressional hearings, which shamed the IRS into a full-scale reorganization. A kinder, gentler agency is now focused on service to taxpayers more than on enforcement. The shift has been so total, in fact, that the consensus within the agency and among tax professionals is that the IRS has got too lax--and tax cheats have got bolder...
...Perhaps in an effort to present a kinder, gentler animal act, Kaleidoscape puts forth Olga Rogacheva and her trained geese. Yes, geese. There is undoubtedly a moment of wonder as the fowl take to the ring and perform a series of maneuvers. Who would have thought geese could be trained to do anything? And when you realize that they aren't really doing much, you think that there may be a reason no one has done it before. The most remarkable thing about the act was seeing Hungarian fourth-generation circus performer Istvan Toth, who stands 27 inches tall, almost...
Thank you for your article "A Kinder, Gentler Death" [SOCIETY, Sept. 18]. I watched my father die of colon cancer while under hospice care. I asked the people on the hospice staff how they could work in such a depressing environment. The answer stunned me. They didn't focus on the sadness; they focused on the care they provided to the patient and the family, making sure it was a "good death." They felt they had done their job if the patient was able to pass away comfortably, surrounded by family members. I think I will count...
...that life in England was easy for the Kinder. There were not enough foster homes for them, and many lived for months in unheated summer-vacation camps. A few were exploited; many were troubled. One could argue that these 10,000 were pathetically few compared with the 6 million lost in the Holocaust. But one of the Kinder, novelist Lore Segal, makes this poignant point: "None of the foster parents with whom I stayed, and there were five of them, could stand me for very long, but all of them had the grace to take in a Jewish child." That...