NOTEBOOK.

Presents quotes from various publications related to political and social events that took place in the U.S. Report from the newspaper "The Washington Post" on the exclusion of the charitable-deduction provision from the tax cut legislation; Description of the proposed repeal of the estate tax; Information on the amount of tax collected in the year 2000 in various U.S. States; Discussion of the legal rights of migrant workers, reported in the periodical "Los Angeles Times"; View that if Legal Services did not stop representing non-citizens, the legislature would pass a highly restrictive measure preventing the group from doing its most basic work, such as filing class-action suits on behalf of clients; Reference to the article "The Reformation of a Street Preacher" published in the January 24, 1993 issue of the periodical "The New York Times"; Others.