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...about the upon hundreds of Harvard undergraduates who participate every day social action and community throughout the Cambridge and greater Boston area? About 40 student the Food Salvage program, which transports food which would otherwise have been wasted from Square restaurants and Harvard University Food Services kitchens to the shelter for the homeless in University Lutheran Church, where it feeds up to 30 hungry people every day. Over 100 students run the shelter, which houses 24 each winter night. Harvard volunteers make up the large part of the staff of Tutoring Plus, an enrichment center for Cambridge children in Central...
Like many tax-shelter deals, Markowitz's scheme attracted money from wealthy celebrities, who often leave their financial affairs to lawyers or accountants. Some of the big names invested hundreds of thousands of dollars with Markowitz. They will not be prosecuted, said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, because they "didn't know Markowitz directly and thought the transactions were legal." Having lost their investments, they face huge bills from the IRS for back taxes. Charges may eventually be filed against some accountants and advisers who steered the stars into the shelters...
...Cavett: "I just came back from Japan, and I much prefer taking a bath in public their way. Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing." Other well-known investors were not talking about their tax-shelter troubles, but a clue to Jong's possible feelings can be found in a scene from her latest novel, Parachutes and Kisses, which is some what autobiographical. The book's central character, Isadora Wing, learns from her accountant that she may have to pay a million dollars in back taxes...
Some of the fierce vitality of the sexual encounters in Paley's earlier stories have given way to more nostalgic couplings. In "Listening," a middle-aged woman driving south on Broadway sees a pedestrian whose "nice unimportant clothes seemed to be merely a shelter for the naked male person." She thinks, "Oh, man, in the very center of your life, still fitting your skin so nicely . . . why have you slipped out of my sentimental and carnal grasp?" Turning to a woman friend in the car, she says: "He's nice, isn't he?" The reply is vintage Paley: "I suppose...
...government is giving the new evacuees a few days' notice, then sending in troops to help them pack up and move. Some owners of coffee plantations have even been paid market rates for the farms they were forced to leave. The government is also providing food, temporary shelter, medical centers and individual farm plots to the 7,000 evacuated families that will be placed in 47 resettlement camps. While many of the refugees are suspected of having collaborated with the contras in the north, movement in and out of the camps has not been restricted. In fact, a few campesinos...