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Fair Share's tax coalition has already been successful in wrangling over $9 million out of the major airlines which use Boston's Logan Airport. In addition, the group was instrumental in changing Massachusetts law to allow the release and publication of the names of outstanding delinguent taxpayers. This action has led to the city's collection of millions of dollars in back taxes. Fair Share has also gone after individual delinquents with equal success...
Christopher S. Jencks, professor of Sociology, spent last year at the University of California at Santa Barbara. While there, he finished a book entitled "Who Gets Ahead," which discusses income distribution and economic success. In addition, he taught two sociology courses, similar to Harvard courses he teaches on social stratification and social theory...
Over the last few years, college fundraising drives have suffered. Harvard's drive for the athletic complex faced particular problems because its success hinged on receiving a number of large contributions; the general fund drive strategy of hitting a large number of alumni for relatively small donations would not work for a specialized project such as the athletic complex, Athletic Department officials said...
...success should be the folks who couldn't make camp, though. Senior Ed Sheehan, last year's numero uno, burned himself out this summer training and road-racing, and has missed the Grottonwood training camp. Sophomores Bob Bolen and Noel Scidmore, along with senior Guy McRoskey, have also passed up camp due to a variety of injuries...
...officials have tried, as usual, to prevent any exaggerated expectations of the outcome at Camp David. Said one: "There is no magic formula. On the basic questions, nothing has changed. There'll be no deus ex machina coming up with a great plan." In fact, even a modest success is far from assured. It will depend in large part on the stern and cantankerous figure of Menachem Begin?and on whether any mixture of pressure and persuasion can induce the onetime guerrilla fighter to lessen his intransigency and make at least some concessions for the sake of a settlement...