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...angelic past, which features a 30-day jail sentence for failing to pay about $500 of taxes and a temporary disbarment. Oddly enough, many of the people who stress Washington's tax evasion are the same ones who stood silently for decades, blithely watching the infamous Chicago political machine commit every conceivable brand of corruption and electoral fraud. Washington's 30 days should definitely be remembered by voters--they are an ugly blotch on his record--but the sudden "civic concern" of his otherwise quiet attackers should be seen as nothing more than fakery...
...nomination of a new director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency has prompted a major Senate debate over whether the Administration is seriously committed to arms control. The controversy misses the real question: To what kind of arms control should the Administration commit itself...
...governed." Speaking to a crowd of about 500,000 gathered for Mass at a military parade ground in the capital, the Pope stressed that the government still had to improve its human rights record. Said John Paul: "When you trample a man, when you violate his rights, when you commit flagrant injustices against him, when you submit him to torture, break in and kidnap him or violate his right to life, you commit a crime and a grave offense against...
Selling books door to door is not the job for everyone but it can be one of the most challenging, interesting and lucrative jobs for someone who is willing to commit themselves to three months of intensive hard work in a place far from home. Knocking on doors for 12 and a half hours a day, six days a week is grueling, but it is more of an adventure than anything else. Selling books is not an intellectual endeavor. All it takes to do well is the desire and stamina to keep on going, rejection after rejection. At times...
...woman stopped into a New Bedford bar to buy some cigarettes. She stayed longer than she'd expected Police say that as the 21-year-old woman headed for the door to leave, she was assaulted by four men, who stripped her from the waist down, forced her to commit oral sex, and raped her repeatedly. After more than two hours the woman managed to break free and ran out of the bar for help...