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Boris I. Bittker, Michael J. Graetz
Boris I. Bittker, Michael J. Graetz
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I first met Boris Bittker on January 21, 1977, in Miami. There are only a handful of people whom you remember first meeting. For me, Boris was one. For the past twenty or so years, I have been lucky enough to count him as a friend. He was always Boris to me, never Borie. I was a new friend – too much his junior to be so informal. Our phone would ring. "Mike, it's Borie," he would say. "Hello Boris!" I would respond.
The conference where Boris and I met was a gathering of about thirty tax law professors and …