Word: writes
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Walzer's argument that all social criticism should be akin to the textual interpretation of a book both the critic and criticized party have read is not totally convincing. If Walzer's analogy were complete, for example, we would have to write or co-author as well as read all those books we criticize. Hermeneutics, to give Walzer's interpretive model its formal title, is a fascinating philosophical strategy with a massive history in European thought. But its application to political criticism needs more analysis and justification than has yet been generated...
...figure our businesses are kind of similar," Collins is rumored to have said. "We both attract large masses of people, take their money away, and still somehow leave them desiring to return. Besides, it's a tax write...
...federal grand jury last week charged three executives -- Charles Atkins, 32, William Hack, 62, and Ernest Grunebaum, 52 -- of Securities Groups, a bankrupt Manhattan-based investment firm, with providing $550 million in false tax write-offs through fraudulent trades in Government securities. Atkins, who headed Securities Groups, is the son of former Ashland Oil Chairman Orin Atkins. The roster of investors lured into the scheme reads like a program listing for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous...
...former Bonanza co-star Lorne Greene with $333,838. Producer Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family, has to answer for $1.5 million. CBS Chief Executive Laurence Tisch's deductions amounted to $1.1 million, while his brother Preston, the U.S. Postmaster General, benefited from a $480,508 write-off. The biggest hit may have to be taken by French Financier Michel David-Weill, who owns 35% of Lazard Freres, a highly successful securities firm. If the Government prevails in the case, he stands to lose at least $4.4 million in deductions...
...reigned as a kind of aesthetic Pope. From his "Vatican," a Tuscan villa known as I Tatti, he issued monographs, criticism and decisions about the authenticity of masterpieces. His verdicts could make or break a market, damage a museum's reputation or deflate amultimillionaire's ego -- and his tax write-offs...