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...Germany is expected to press its case again in September at a meeting of E.U. ministers in the Netherlands. Is Schröder's fear justified? It's true that many of the new E.U. states look like tax paradises compared to Germany or France. In January, Poland dropped its corporate-tax rate from 27% to 19%. Slovakia this year implemented a flat income tax of 19%. The average corporate-tax rate in the 10 new members is 21.3%, while it is nearly 30% in the rest of the E.U. It is 38% in Germany and 34% in France. That...
...Prime time to drop by is 3 p.m. every Saturday, when the Staar provides free food to all drinkers. Tread carefully, though: Squaronians like to keep to themselves, scaring off strangers with thousand-yard stares. Perhaps that's just as well. As one former resident who managed to escape its pull said, the square is "self-contained, self-righteous, fascinating, and a fire escape to nowhere...
Adams agreed with the sentiment but did not think the recommendation was feasible. Congress at that time was in no mood to spend money for a fleet. Jefferson, however, never let the subject drop. In 1787 he approached Jones, who was down on his luck in Paris, out of work and having woman troubles as usual. Would Jones be interested in a job offer from Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, who Jefferson happened to know was looking for an admiral? That admiral's task would be to clear out the Turkish fleet from the Black Sea, on Russia...
...Nader, you have a right to run, but we have not heard a reason to run." REPRESENTATIVE ELIJAH CUMMINGS, Democratic chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, during a meeting in which the group asked the third-party candidate to drop out of the presidential race...
...early days at Harvard, I thought I had escaped from your shadow—an idea which lasted about two years until my first Crimson interview with University President Lawrence H. Summers. You drop the H-bomb, everyone wants to know your SAT scores. You drop the S-bomb, everyone—including Harvard’s own president—wants to know if Michael Steinhardt is your father...