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When VanAlstyne told his coordinator that he was gay, the coordinator immediately enlisted VanAlstyne's help for a campaign inside IBM to obtain health care benefits for homosexual employees' partners...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Gay Professionals Speak At Queer Harvard Month | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

Frazier Todd Jr., a flimflam man from Atlanta, sussed out the IRS's inability to detect fraud. Todd obtained Social Security numbers from dozens of Atlanta women who lived in public housing projects. He then secured employer IDs from the IRS (making him look as if he were hiring them) and transcribed both numbers onto W-2 forms that he used to prepare electronic returns. Todd filled in an income for these women and a figure for taxes withheld that was high enough to kick back a generous refund. Todd then took the returns to banks to obtain "refund anticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN OVERTAXED IRS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Consortium's questions ask parents about how they obtain information from Harvard; their visits to Harvard; their interactions with offices and individuals; receptions for parents in their area; and their views on the college's success in academics, services and facilities, Dingman said...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: College Questions 3,000 Parents | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

...outlined ways to court the President's political supporters with visits to the White House mess, special policy briefings, trinkets, White House tours and the like. Of particular interest to congressional investigators is her proposal that the White House also set up "links" with government agencies, so it could obtain "information/resources" for those early supporters--a plan that sounds very much like trading official favors for contributions. Republicans found the documents highly provocative. "When it involves using government assets to aid in the political campaign," says Indiana Congressman David McIntosh, a leader of the House fund-raising probe, "that steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHO IS MARSHA SCOTT? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...physical health, courts have allowed "emotional, psychological, familial" factors to be considered, as well as "the woman's age." We fool ourselves if we don't acknowledge that these exceptions have been extended to women too poor, too young, or too dysfunctional to care for a child--or obtain a timely abortion. When Clinton asks for a "health of mother" exception in the current bill, without specifying physical health, he is saying there should be no change in the status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARTIAL-TRUTH ABORTION | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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