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Reactions to the museum have been varied. According to Carter Pledger, the exhibit might be too focused on one particular area and time period to really attract a wide audience...
...sector that employs more than a million Sri Lankans and a tax system so riddled with loopholes that evasion is rampant. Of about 32,000 registered businesses in the country, only some 9,000 file tax returns. "Paying corporate income tax in this country is almost voluntary," says Jeremy Carter, the top representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sri Lanka. The combination of high governmental spending on defense and the civil service along with a low revenue base meant that national debt had swelled to alarming levels by the time Wickremesinghe came into office in late 2001. Thanks...
...Noting that the economy expanded even during the war-torn '90s, Carter of the IMF argues that Sri Lanka "has the potential to keep growing, even if the worst happens." But any growth it achieves in a state of resumed conflict will be a parody of what this highly literate, resource-rich country can achieve in peacetime. Toyota, for instance, expects any resumption of fighting to slash its sales by up to 25%. A foreshadowing of a Sri Lanka gone wrong already awaits visitors to the posh Welcombe Hotel in Trincomalee. Owned by Sri Lanka's Tourism Minister, the once...
After finally ending her 3-year romance with her high school sweetheart in September, Meghan O. Miller ’06 is on the rebound—in a big, or, rather, very old, way. For the last few weeks, Miller has been seeing a lot of Stanton R. Carter ’74, whom she met at a Central Square bar. Miller says the best part of her new relationship is getting to know Carter’s daughter, Julia I. Carter ’04. Says Miller, “Julia is really cool with the whole situation...
...down, as so many do at Harvard, with a trip to the local video store. Imagine popping an obscure find from the romantic comedy section into the VCR and snuggling with another Ivy-League loser as the opening credits roll. Imagine watching a hip but responsible woman from the Carter era walk sunnily across a plaza and into the first lines of dialogue, where she wittily banters with a young man about—the snake lemma...