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...people don't think it's morally wrong. They think the government is extorting their money to give to families in the slums," says Philip T. Weinstein, a Miami tax attorney. "When they're caught, they don't bother giving explanations. They usually just say, 'Get me out of this.' Sometimes, they're not at all sorry. They're just terribly sorry they got caught. But most people don't get caught...
...Edmund Wilson, the distinguished literary critic, was so unimpressed by his own income (sometimes less than $2,000 per year) that he did not bother to file tax returns from 1946 to 1955; in 1958, he was ordered to pay $35,000 in back taxes and $34,000 in penalties and interest. After Wilson and the IRS settled on $30,000, he achieved literary revenge of a sort by writing an indignant jeremiad: The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest...
...Honor winner, who entered an Army hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. In the play. Jackson (Reggie Montgomery) is confronted by an understanding psychologist (Ralph Pochoda). Their contact peels layers of resistance away from his cool exterior. Montgomery's riveting performance exposes a man consumed by guilt--guilt over bother his unconscionable actions in Vietnam and the fact that be alone of all his soldier friends survived to be actually honored for those deeds...
...Colby and the highlight is not Harvard's ice hockey team "rolling in" or whatever it does. A scanning of a calendar of events at Colby would indicate that Mr. Zucker either was not here to cover the game, which Colby won. 4-1, or he did not bother to venture outside of the hockey rink. For example, recent events at Colby were a panel discussion on the humanities and scientific implications of genetic engineering: a visit by Garry Wills as writer-in-residence a student production of "The Trojan Women," by Euripides; a lecture on grass-roots organizing...
...pained when it flashed onto the television screen, and his comments were haltingly slow. But it was not the mechanical heart that troubled Barney Clark as he gave his first public interview since his historic operation on Dec. 1. "The heart has pumped right along. It doesn't bother me at all," he told his surgeon, Dr. William DeVries, who conducted the session on videotape at the University of Utah Medical Center. Instead, it was his lungs, permanently damaged by years of poor circulation, that kept Clark rasping throughout the 2½-minute conversation. The obvious strain...