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...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...
...first glance, the news seems routine. Four hundred deliverymen in Manhattan join a labor union and win $3 million in back pay. What's unusual is that the workers, predominantly from West Africa, are all undocumented. And, even more remarkable, these illegal immigrants, given lax immigration enforcement, have little reason to fear deportation. Indeed, one of them, Siaka Diakite, an Ivory Coast native, is now pictured in a widely distributed color brochure put out by the AFL-CIO. Says Charles Batchli, a plaintiff from the Congo: "It didn't matter who we were. We are human beings first. The question...
...tricky self-contradicting forms and a bureaucracy with absolutely no interest in issuing any gun permits to anyone in Jersey City. This was the biggest hurdle yet, and the temptation to smuggle in a rifle from Oregon was overwhelming (federal laws regulating interstate transport of firearms are surprisingly lax; I could have flown from Oregon to Jersey with a rifle as declared luggage and nobody would have blinked an eye at Newark International). I just couldn't stand the fact that I was losing six months of training because of some silly laws that put my single-shot...
...order for the Crimson to win, the team will have to keep its turnover total close to single digits. If Harvard plays with lax ball control like when it committed 28 turnovers against Boston University, Maloni--who is 14th in the country with 3.6 steals per game--is more than capable of making Harvard pay for its mistakes...
...violations mostly represented "things we've gotten lax on," such as maintaining program advisory committees of parents, students and professionals for each technical art, he said...