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...other was so shunned by the Harvard community that he was forced to change his schedule completely and enter a side door. He never spoke to an open audience or accomplished what he came to do. The uproar over the whole affair reached a crescendo seldom seen here...
...accounts, the IRA program is expected to cost the Government about $13 billion in lost tax revenue this year. Moreover, some critics point out that the taxpayers who most often take advantage of IRAs are the ones who need it least: the middle and upper class. Low-income citizens seldom have the spare cash to invest. To the extent that the IRA program takes pressure off legislators to bolster Social Security payments, it may work against the interests of low-income citizens in the decades ahead...
...called himself "the best playwright ever to have defended a murderer at the Central Criminal Court." The claim is neither entirely immodest nor self-deprecating. It is English Author John Mortimer's way of pointing out that the careers he has pursued seldom overlap. A barrister who became a Queen's Counsel and practiced in the loftiest reaches of the British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned...
Despite such scrutiny, "an astronomical amount is getting through," admits Customs District Director Allan Rappoport. Worse still, the so-called mule skinners who are caught with the shipments seldom turn out to be Mr. Big. "The people who drive the vehicles are usually very poor and uneducated," says one U.S. drug agent. "There is so much poverty in Mexico that traffickers have an unlimited labor pool. The drivers almost always keep their mouths shut, since they have been told that their wives and kids will be blown away otherwise...
...nowhere, some 60 miles northwest of Duluth. It too is a city of straight streets and flat terrain. It has an MGM lounge (rather more subdued than its Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that it has the world's largest open-pit iron mine...