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In a world where one man who clearly violates the tax law gets elected mayor of New York while another gets put out of business and sentenced to jail, it's worth a few moments to try to discern what's going on.
The Government argued that Regan and Princeton/Newport did violate the tax law, but -- worse -- tried to disguise what they did by breaking up their repurchases into odd amounts at varying prices. What perhaps got Regan into the hottest water, though -- and it's kind of scary the Government might work...
The jurors I interviewed seemed less than rock solid in their conviction too. "I don't feel what they did was jailworthy," one juror told me. Said another: "I felt bad about this whole thing, to tell you the truth. I don't feel like we did the right thing...
-- The judge was wise to pass a light sentence because, well, how bad is what Regan, et al, were charged with -- really?
Yet the work outlives the folly and redeems the sadness. Throughout the artist's long career, that was always the case. Every biography of O'Keeffe -- including this massive one -- is really an elaboration of the message she sent a student back in 1924: "Making your unknown known is the...