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Also caught in the cross fire of the IRS war against fraud are women who when they married neglected to change their name with the Social Security Administration. If the names on a tax return don't exactly match those from SSA, the IRS will reject the returns. That's how Lisa Broeker, 32, a nurse's aide from South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, learned that the SSA still had her listed as Lisa Lopez, even though she had paid taxes under her married name for nine years. She was forced to stand in line at the local Social Security office...
...trusted would be as Christian and Republican and triumphant as he was. White put it this way in his 1978 autobiography, In Search of History: "Freedom of the press, [Luce] held, ran two ways: His reporters were free to report what they wished; but he was free to reject what they report-ed, or have it rewritten as he wished...
...demanding to be reinstated as South Africa's deputy minister of arts, culture, science and technology. The court papers also ask her estranged husband, President Nelson Mandela, to explain why he fired her last month. TIME South Africa reporter Peter Hawthorne expects the South African Supreme Court to promptly reject her case. Mrs. Mandela hadopenly criticized government policyand is suspected of taking bribes...
...miracles, it turns out, comes along just as a generation of Bible scholars is dedicated to disproving them. From both seminaries and secular institutions, scholars are drawing on science, archaeology and modern textual criticism to write a chapter of Christianity that makes little mention of miracles except to reject them. They believe the teachings of Jesus are more important than the teachings about Jesus. In this book there is no virgin birth, no walking on water; the healings amount to parlor tricks, and the Resurrection never happened...
While conservatives dismiss the theology of the Jesus Seminar members, middle-of-the-road Bible professors reject their scholarship. They use the same rigorous standards of inquiry to prove the very assertions that liberals are so quick to reject. First, they argue, the skeptics assume the New Testament was written long after the Crucifixion occurred, and so reflects the agenda and faith of the second generation of Christians, not events as experienced by the original apostles. That whole approach is undercut by the purported discovery announced in January of what would be the oldest manuscript of a Gospel, which dates...