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...child tax credits, and watch revenues shrink. Reduce the number of tax brackets while eliminating loopholes, and the lowest-income families may not be any better off. "It's a lot easier to talk about in general terms than it is to design policies that meet those objectives," says Robert Reischauer, former head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office...
JOHN CRONIN AND ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. In Search of the Beauty And Mystery of Home...
Since the plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. went down on July 16, observations about the Kennedys have mainly connected the family with calamity and grief. But the environmental work of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his partner, John Cronin, remind one that the Kennedys are more lastingly characterized by public service. In May I went out with Kennedy and Cronin on New York's revitalized Hudson River, a fluid monument to the devotion so many Kennedys have felt for the country...
This is what Cronin, appointed Hudson Riverkeeper in 1983, does for a living. He and his friend and chief prosecuting attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--two serious and good-humored men in their late 40s who look like kids, think like politicians and talk like poets--have formed a partnership based on vigilance and the law. With the help of students from the Environmental Litigation Clinic at the Pace University School of Law, Cronin and Kennedy have brought more than 150 legal actions against the river's polluters. Their most important case to date led to the 1997 watershed agreement...
...assumed, even by the election-oriented Kennedys, that the girls in the family were meant for the job. But the young Kathleen, as the first grandchild of Joseph Kennedy, was nonetheless expected to serve in some way. Two days after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Kathleen's father Robert wrote his 12-year-old daughter a note on White House stationery: "As the oldest of the next generation you have a particular responsibility...Be kind to others and work for your country. Love, Daddy...