Word: latters
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...Supreme Court will probably review the decision. If the Mikva ruling survives, a lower federal court will face a difficult choice: whether to remove the tax benefits given to veterans' organizations or to extend them to all charitable groups that lobby. The latter possibility naturally appeals to many organizations. Says Hope Babcock, a lawyer for the National Audubon Society: "Anything that will increase our ability to lobby will be beneficial." But the appeals court majority worried that enhancing this ability "might open a Pandora's box of woes and abuse." The IRS recognizes 328,000 charitable groups whose...
...accused me of placing debris on my stairway (and presumably on my head, where some debris happened to fall as I was leaving my building) "to fabricate the appearance that debris was falling on the steps or was being left there." (He forgot, for some reason, to mention the latter claim in court.) He also made a rather expansive threat: "We must advise you that any further conduct by you which interferes with legitimate interests of Harvard will not be tolerated...
...leave it? Not even his closest aides know for sure. Says one adviser: "Either he will spring a compromise at the most appropriate time, or he just doesn't see the nature of the problem and is being obstinate." One longtime Reagan associate bets on the latter. "He's an ideologue. He's saying what he believes, not necessarily what's smart...
...James outlines further this "Media Crusade to Sink EI Salvador," by examining recent articles from the Postand theNew York Times.Of 23 Timesarticles on the subject, James finds that "10 are perceptibly pro-guerilla and only seven pro-U.S....." Thirteen stories of the former variety and five of the latter comprise the Post's coverage of El Salvador. Articles such as these or William Rusher's commentary on "America's zealously anti-Reagan major media" are not uncommon in recent editions of the magazine...
...then Reed lets loose his anger with songs about a rapist, a masochist, a drunkard and a man going insane. Reed paints the latter two characters as victims of society. His wrath for the rapist, though, knows no end The subject of "The Gun" is a "dirty animal" who won't hesitate to "blow your brains out" to satisfy his urges. Even more frightening and intense are the almost unbearable lyrics of the album's title...