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...wrote back. "You corrected an error on my return? Getcho hands off my return!" Then I tore that up and sent, instead, a meek request that they identify my error. Call it a sixth sense I have for dealing with bureaucracy...
...slip towards me, Ingrid. Push it towards me, push his death towards me. Breathe deeply, Ingrid, breathe deeply. You will live after this. Push Martyn's death towards me. You will live. Give him to me now. Give me his death." Why the narrator believes that this request will alleviate his wife's sorrow remains as much a mystery as the motivations behind most of the other characters' actions in the book...
...what could he say if President Bush made the same request? The bottom line is that Kuwait and other Arab states are unlikely to heed the helpful proposals of Congress if they lack the president's endorsement. The legislative branch's authority on foreign affairs only goes...
When the Florida state comptroller announced he was going to yank B.C.C.I.'s license to operate in the state after the conviction, he received a peculiar letter from the Justice Department in Washington. "We are . . . requesting that B.C.C.I. be permitted to operate in your jurisdiction with the understanding that certain accounts may be maintained by the bank at the request of the Department of Justice which otherwise would be closed to avoid legal and regulatory violations," wrote Charles Saphos, then chief of the Criminal Division Narcotics section. "I was confused by what they wanted," says Florida Comptroller Gerald Lewis...
...wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could it be that the President remembers the pain of coughing up to the taxman? He was furious when an IRS audit in 1984 forced him to pay nearly $200,000 in taxes...