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The widening gap between company profits and the taxes they pay to the government could be explained by increasing abuse of tax shelters, the Treasury Department says. \"Many abusive transactions remain undiscovered, and numerous new transactions are created all the time,\" Jonathan Talisman, Treasury's acting assistant secretary for tax policy, told Congress on Wednesday. \"Corporate tax shelters breed disrespect for the tax system.\"

The estate of the late Stanley Paul Sax of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is being brought to market by Sotheby's in a two-day sale of furniture, clocks, silver, paintings, porcelain and folk art that is conservatively estimated to bring more than $10 million. But more than 20 years ago, Sax lent what many consider the finest piece in his collection -- an extraordinary Chippendale mahogany desk -- to the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State.

\"We just didn't have enough time to do the marketing,\" said Wain Rubenstein, president of the Memphis Runners Track Club and race director for the marathon. Local runner Paul Sax, 39, noted the marathon wasn't held in the mid 1980s, but was \"revived\" and said he hoped it would be again. Still, \"it's disappointing,\" said Sax. \"It'll hurt the Memphis running community because people won't have a local marathon to shoot for.\"

[Trish Headley], now 42, was training for the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati that May, so she ignored the pain and did her scheduled run the next day. Over the next two months, the pain in Headley's leg worsened - and she ran more and more. Photo(3); Photographs by Thomas Busler/The Commercial Appeal Thomas Busler/The Commercial Appeal Trish Headley had a hard time adjusting to being grounded from her running routine by injury. She found alternatives in swimming and biking during the down time. Physical therapist [Joel Lyons] examines the leg of a runner who was injured. \"It was a real stunner to realize I wasn't going to run for 12 weeks,\" said Trish Headley. \"I became irritated and depressed, and I lost perspective.\"

The Legends are: Walton, Bud Joyner, Patrick Alexander, Calvin Johnson, John Mohundro, Mike Cody, Mary Ann Wehrum, E. J. Goldsmith Jr., Frank Horton and Dr. Jack Rockett. This is not merely a club for so-called \"elite\" runners, the best and the fastest. Photos; A.J. Wolfe/The Commercial Appeal The surviving seven members of the \"Legends of Memphis Running\" are (from left) Brenda Walton, Bud Joyner, Patrick Alexander, Calvin Johnson, John Mohundro, Mike Cody and [Mary Anne Wehrum]. Local runner [Paul Sax] says he decided on the Legends idea when he had trouble getting an official Hall of Fame off the ground. Courtesy Mike Cody Legends Jack Rockett and Mike Cody complete the St. Louis Marathon in 1976. Rockett died in 1991. E.J. Goldsmith Frank Horton

So why was blue-eyed Brooke Shields posing with five wide-eyed Harvard men, and where was mother- manager Teri during the potentially steamy, four- hour session in New York last July? It turns out Mom knew it was all to promote the Harvard Lampoon parody of People magazine, on which her jeanybopper daughter shares cover billing with a lucky dead fish. In fact, Teri arranged the whole thing. Bubbled Brooke: \"She realizes I like older guys.\"CHATTER Lampooning. When the Harvard Lampoon decided to publish a parody of People, it didn't exactly crank up the nearest mimeograph machine. One million copies of the glossy magazine, priced at $2 each, are hitting the newsstands today. The 112-page book has 54 pages of advertising - priced at between $6900 and $9800 per full page - which were peddled from a sales office located on Manhattan's posh Sutton Place South. As Brattle Street meets Wall Street Lampoonpresident Jeff Martin has only one thing toworry about. \"Everybody asks me,\" he frets, \" How can you do a parody of something that's already a joke?' \" The People edition was produced by 11 of the 35 staffers who produce the regular Harvard Lampoon. They stayed near the group's Cambridge \"castle\" last summer writing and designing the magazine surrounded by the building's horror movie decor. They also spent a great deal of time reading the real People, the better to dream up articles on the likes of the Bother Brothers (three professional pests named Fred, Ed and Ned) and profiles of personalities such as Jose Jenderson (a bullfighter who uses dynamite for the kill). The Lampoon's method of acquiring past issues of People, which has been published since 1974, was simple: \"We stole them from libraries,\" confides senior Gregg Lacho.

Until the mid-1990s, doctors would likely have tried to coax a less durable form of cartilage to cover the worn patch by shaving away the deteriorating cartilage until the underlying bone began bleeding. Generally the patient's own body would respond by covering the wound with a new, but less durable form of cartilage. Instead, Azar used [Paul Sax]'s own cartilage as a patch. For patients with more extensive cartilage damage, Azar said treatment options are available that rely on donor cartilage or involve harvesting cartilage from the patient's knee, growing more of it a laboratory and then returning it to the patient's knee using a patch fashioned from the patient's skin to help hold the replacement cartilage in place. photo (2); ; Photographs by Nikki Boertman (Color) Dr. [Frederick M. Azar] watches his colleague, Dr. [S. Terry Canale], test patient Paul Sax's knee during a postsurgical checkup at the Campbell Clinic. The avid runner and tennis teacher underwent a procedure to patch worn cartilage. (Color) Sax works on the fledgling form of Nicholas Azar, 4, during the fourth lesson for the boy, son of Dr. Azar. Eighty percent of patients report improved knee function following an osteocondryl autograft transfer system.

This dissertation focuses on the development of Mexican Detective Fiction, from its inception in the 1940's to the recent success of the so-called “neopoliciaco” that portrays police corruption and the unlawful activities of criminal organizations. By applying Austin Freeman's theory of the structure of the traditional detective story and Roland Barthes' hermeneutical code to short stories by Antonio Helú, Pepe Martínez de la Vega, María Elvira Bermúdez, and Rubén Salazar Mallén, this dissertation concludes that these writers tried to assimilate the “whodunit” formula of such key detective fiction authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie. Analysis of Rodolfo Usigli's Ensayo de un crimen (1944) is twofold. On one hand, the use of Patricia Merivale's concepts of the metaphysical detective story stresses the way in which Usigli's text subverts the traditional detective fiction conventions. On the other hand, the application of Foucault's theories on sexuality, as well as his concept of the Panopticon, show that Ensayo de un crimen is a cultural artifact of the homophobic discourse of criminology and journalism prevalent in Postrevolutionary Mexican society. Jameson's theories on the political unconscious and Althusser's notions on ideology are deployed to underscore the fragmentation of the Mexican political system in El complot mongol (1969) by Rafael Bernal. Sergio Pitol's El desfile del anzor (1984) showcases posmodernist traits, such as the impossibility to uncover the truth so the criminal can neither be detected nor punished. Though Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Días de combate (1976) marks the inception of the “neopoliciaco,” the text still adheres to some features of the “whodunit,” such as the pursuit of justice and the closure of a solution. On the other hand, his volume Nomás los muertos están bien contentos (1994) includes three short stories that depict police brutality inflicted on innocent citizens, as well as organ trafficking.In sum, this dissertation emphasizes the development of a genre from the initial assimilation of the “whodunit” through the metaphysical detective novel to its postmodern manifestations.

[Rick Reikenis] and Commissioner Helen Wilkes said they opposed selling or leasing the property. Mayor Carol Roberts and Commissioner Sam Thomas said they needed more information before making a decision, while Vice Mayor Frank Sineath said he was in favor of the concept.