Word: michaell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gore raised the injustice with IRS Acting Commissioner Michael J. Murphy, who agreed that the policy was wrong. Henceforth, he ruled, overly generous taxpayers will get refunds. The problem arises mainly for workers who retire or quit and get lump-sum pension payments but forget to claim a credit for the taxes that were withheld. Taxpayers who detect such an error as far back as 1985 can apply for repayment. The Government will even pony up interest on its unfair use of the citizens' money...
...Kelly's Rue du Parc-Royal headquarters, Aunt Jemima rag dolls flop on a Louis Vuitton footlocker. Josephine Baker posters loom over a rainbow coalition of assistants. When Kelly's cousin Michael Thomas, a 345-lb. trucker, came to see the Louvre debut, he brought 20 packages of grits. ("Patrick said, 'If you don't bring no grits, don't come," said Thomas, grinning.) The models really chowed down. "I'm not the Great Black Hope, honey," says Kelly. "But it's like the old song, 'You use what you got to get what you want...
...Kelly has known what he wanted to be. Nonetheless, at Jackson State University, then an all-black school, he went through a "militant stage." His best friend hanged himself in jail. "I remember singing 'Burn, baby, burn,' and knowing what it meant," Kelly says. And there was the teacher, Michael Thomas recalled, who "told Pat he'd never amount to anything. Right after that, Pat dropped...
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