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...asked about compensation for the banner and the House Office told me I would have to talk to the Master, who would not return until the fall. At this point I went about trying to locate the owner of the banner and a receipt on which to base compensation demands. With letter and receipt from the owner in hand I went to see Dean of Students Archie Epps about the banner. He told me that this was a responsibility of Dudley House and that I should see the Senior Tutor if the Master was not in. When I made...
...their taxes-federal, state and local-but supposedly respectable institutions help them do it. "Take someone who has just bought $1,000 worth of clothing," says Connecticut Revenue Commissioner Orest Dubno. "The store can ship a necktie somewhere out of state, so it can show a UPS address and receipt, and the buyer avoids the state sales tax. Actions such as these contribute to losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars...
...officials are optimistic about cutting down the fraud. Early last year, agents and inspectors from the Agriculture Department joined forces with the FBI and the Secret Service partly to probe organized crime's involvement in food-stamp fraud. The redemption system helps net violators, who must sign a receipt at a bank to convert food stamps to cash. This creates a telltale paper trail. "There are a lot of stamp scams," says Robert Mueller, chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. "But compared to narcotics cases, for example, there is usually...
...other IOP news, the Institute yesterday announced the receipt of a grant of $225,000 for a three-year study aimed at identifying the ways in which the media affects policy-making in the federal government...
...long-ago spring of 1977, because the teacher who picked the winner was incensed that I had been passed over by the teacher who selected members of the National Honor Society. Despite my dubious claim to the book. I enjoyed some of the essays that it contained, listed its receipt on my Harvard application, and placed the volume conspicuously on my bedroom book shelf from which it has not since strayed. In truth, I had forgotten about the book until an updated version appeared in the mail several weeks ago, just as I was looking for an excuse to feel...