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...increase exceeds the state-mandated 4-per-cent tax cap which the city council overrode last night. "The only thing more ridiculous than relying on the property tax is trying to put a cap on that tax," City Councilor David Sullivan said, adding, "I have no qualms about overriding the cap...
...speech tends to drag; the reporters, who make up a third of the crowd, keep looking over their shoulders at the 30-foot cross that will be burned to cap the evening. But the real audience, most of whom look like they arrived on motorcycles, won't let him stop. "Send the fuckers back," they yell when he talks about refugees; and when he mentions that a high proportion of the Cubans "don't like the things that other men like," they all start screaming, "faggot, queer." Welfare is unpopular, as is charity, deemed "communist." A beery tough asks...
...emerged as a national model for China and Zhao, 61, as a model bureaucrat. Zhao had been denounced during the Cultural Revolution as a "stinking landlord element" (his father had been a landowner in Henan province) and was paraded down the streets of Canton in 1967 with a dunce cap on his head, a type of experience he shared with a number of other Chinese leaders. He disappeared for four years; then, in 1975, after serving in both Inner Mongolia and Guangdong province party posts, he was sent to Sichuan, as Party Secretary and Governor...
...sure if it was caused by a swelling on the rim or the settling of material on the floor of the crater. Inside the crater a lava dome has been forming. It glows red as molten rock roils underneath its hardened crust. The questions: Will it be able to cap the volcano? Or will pent-up gases blast through again...
...Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, would a ceremonial garment approach the purity and bold ness of design of the 19th century chiefs cloak named for Kekaulike-nui. Such objects would form a climax to any ethnographical show. One can only regret that in this case they do not cap a better...