Monthly Journalism Award

The Washington Monthly Journalism Award DECEMBER 1996 NICK KOTZ Breaking Point The Washingtonian From the tragedy ofAdmiral Boorda's suicide, Kotz has composed an in-depth look at one...

...overwhelming consideration for ’ othersglows like a halo, manifested in smallgestures, such as his shipboard antics designed to boost morale...
...lfe of integrity and honor, as well as his untimely death...
...Aspart ofthe Times’s series on how progressive tax laws ofen favor the rich, this piece details how those in America's top tax brackets find routes arounddeclaring inheritances as the gifts they truly are-and thus avoid paying taxes...
...CHRISTOPHER DREW & DAVID CAY JOHNSON For Wealthy Americans, Death is More Certain than Taxes The New York Times Ever since America...
...Readers come away wishing they could have Known Admiral Boordayet alsofeeling that, in some way, they did...
...This 30-page account chronicles Boordai last 23 days in detail,from dozens ofperspectives, including that of Newsweek writer David Hackworth and his editors as they prepared to run the story that is thought to have prompted Boorda...
...Et Drew andJohnson point out what most of us already suspected:Tax laws, as with variouc other legalities,can be avoided most efectively by the wealthy...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism Award DECEMBER 1996 NICK KOTZ Breaking Point The Washingtonian From the tragedy ofAdmiral Boorda's suicide, Kotz has composed an in-depth look at one man...
...wealth was concentrated in the bands of such select captains of industry as John D. Rockefelleer, aprogressive estate tax has played a vital role in the efmt to redistribute the nation's capital...
...Upon $nishing the article, ” wrote Kotz, “Hackworth had told his assistant, Heidi Duncan, that if Boorda's story were known, ‘he just mightput a gun to his head.’ ") ‘ In KO...
...writing, Boorda...

Vol. 29 • March 1997 • No. 3


 
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