Word: explainers
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SINCE the opening of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent torrent of change in the Eastern Bloc, experts have advanced scores of theories to explain the rise of freedom. Economists cite the inherent inefficiency of central planning, while the Right credits the Reagan military buildup with forcing Gorbachev to back down. The press, enamored of Gorbachev, credits his foresight and "vision" with Eastern Europe's new found freedom...
Tomassoni is going to get the job. He'd better, or else Harvard will lose one of its most promising coaches. But he shouldn't have to explain that his close friend gave...
...think we have a very important mission," Wilson said. "I want to describe that and explain that to our friends...
Wilson was a forceful man of letters, not numbers. That may explain why the only Wilsons in David Burnham's blistering critique of the Internal Revenue Service are "James," a Supreme Court Justice who in 1794 rendered the decision that allowed President Washington to put down an armed tax revolt by Appalachian moonshiners; "Frank," an IRS investigator who helped nail Al Capone; and "Bob," a Republican Congressman tied to a tax ruling for ITT during the Nixon Administration. Nonetheless, Edmund remains half-right. Nightmares about the Soviets may have receded, but Americans have yet to lose their fear of filing...
That the IRS is another flawed bureaucracy is no surprise. When accountants find time for lunch they speak of little else. Whiffs of scandal occasionally become gusts, like a former IRS assistant commissioner who could not adequately explain why he charged the agency for airfare to visit his girlfriend. Burnham's audit includes abuses and inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections...