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...apply property liens across state lines. At week's end Florida rounded up several hundred suspected deadbeats in a dramatic sweep. Though state and federal collection efforts, including a program to confiscate federal tax refunds, have had some success, the scope of the scofflaws' damage is still vast--they owe a cumulative $34 billion to 17 million children...
...with all of my pent-up anger and pain. Now I know that I was a victim. So I've decided to come forward and share my experience with the Crimson's readers. In the words of the leaflet, I've made the brave decision to "TELL SOMEONE!" (I owe the melodramatic capitalization and punctuation to the leaflet.) Now back in my unenlightened days, I was naive enough to think that the two professors who invited me to lunch were simply showing a genuine concern for students that is all too rare at a place like Harvard...
...Chieftains owe their existence to Guinness: in 1963 an heir to the company financed the band's first record. For years Moloney, an accountant, and the others kept their day jobs; some dropped out. Of the original five, only Moloney and fiddler Martin Fay remain; the others are Conneff (percussion), Sean Keane (second fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) and Derek Bell (harp and keyboards), whose dour banker's visage is uncapped onstage to reveal a wily mischiefmaker. "We keep the humor going," says Moloney. "I grew up in an atmosphere where music was about happiness and song." But the group...
...Angry White Male. But the signals from the new majority are mixed: work is bad when it takes the professional mother away from her kids, but good for the welfare mother who must leave her children for a job at a minimum wage that she will then owe to whoever watches them...
...Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne is my favourite painter too ... Maybe that's why he draws so many of us to him." Us: oh, come on. William Lieberman, who curated this show for the Met (and has hung it beautifully), banished these ruminations from the wall. They...