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...Texas. So far, IRS investigations conducted mainly by agents or volunteers posing as clients have resulted in fraud convictions of 126 tax preparers and indictments of another 85. The refund mills under IRS scrutiny usually consist of one or two people who often set up shop in a storefront and earn up to $40,000 for three months' work...
...which stack turntables, receivers, tape decks, casettes and digital clock radios from floor to ceiling in the 15-foot display windows. When we were in New York for Winter recess, one of these dives had broken away from the traditional display of commercialism and had instead plastered the entire storefront with copies of the recently released LP The Devine Miss...
Tawny, twinkly eyed, Johnny Mathis handsome, Eikerenkoetter is 37 now. Until he was 30, he was just a doomsaying, fundamentalist black preacher, a Baptist minister's son from Ridgeland, S.C., trying to make good in the world of black storefront religion in Boston and New York. But in 1965, he adopted the style that was to set him apart. Instead of preaching humility and meekness, he began to preach a pride bordering on arrogance. "Say it after me," Ike tells his listeners. "All that God is, I am." He also stopped talking about hell. "I discovered after analyzing...
...Kozol has spent much of the last two years visiting free schools across the country and evaluating what was partly his own handiwork. In general, he reports in the current Harvard Educational Review, he was pleased by what he found in ghetto storefront schools, where the chief problem was constant staff turnover. All too often, Kozol writes, the teachers are young whites who spend a year in "the race and conscience bag," then discover new slogans and bywords and leave for "a new dedication." Nevertheless, the ghetto schools' education programs, by virtue of their locations, have inherently "a strong...
...staffs during the Democratic primary campaigns. He cited what he called examples of "proven facts of opposition-incited disruptions of the President's campaign." They included the discovery of a Molotov cocktail at one Nixon headquarters, fire damage at two others and window breaking at Nixon storefront campaign offices in three cities. The Post checked out each incident, found widespread violence against Nixon campaign offices in the nation but no evidence that McGovern's committees were involved in them. On the other hand, when various Democratic candidates reported acts of sabotage, there was often no evidence that these...