Word: reform
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...death and taxes one more of life's certainties: the Internal Revenue Service will always find fresh ways to make the former seem almost preferable to calculating the latter. Last week the IRS unveiled new filing forms made necessary by last year's tax-reform law. The estimated 13 million people who have a second mortgage, a home-equity loan or a refinanced mortgage during 1987 will need to fill out a two-page Form 8598, which comes with instructions that are twice as long as the form (estimated fill-out time, according to the IRS: 84 minutes). Some...
...direction of Dean Daniel C. (unclear) '46, the Medical School has been struggling to revamp a traditional curriculum, which critics say has left many students bored with trying to process an ever-growing and ever-changing body of medical information. As the climate of opinion changed, talk of curricular reform became rampant...
Among those working hardest to contain the spread of AIDS in the urban ghettos, there is often a sense of despair. Drug addicts are tough subjects for reform. "We need to stop the recruitment of young people into IV drug use in the first place," says Don Des Jarlais, of the New York State division of substance abuse services. Working with youths who are sniffing but not yet injecting heroin, Des Jarlais says, "We get them thinking about AIDS and what to do to prevent themselves from becoming exposed...
...Scenes smack with references to the French Revolution and the civil war in Ireland. While Erpingham views a crowd of insurgent campers, "La Marseillaise" can be heard from a distance. OK, Joe, I get the hint. The campers follow the typical revolutionary pattern: frustrated by their efforts at peaceful reform, the rabble are instigated to get violent to the point of complete overthrow of the "government...
...should welcome the prospect of an equally dangerous, equally malicious, equally aggressive Soviet Union with the only difference being that it will have a more efficient economy," says Richard Perle, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense. Henry Kissinger, who believes that the Soviet attempts at reform are sincere, captures the dilemma nicely: "There are two dangers for the U.S. in this program: first, that it may fail; second, that it may succeed." The U.S., Kissinger adds, should not make foreign policy concessions based on a desire to affect Soviet domestic reforms...