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...November 8, the citizens of Cambridge will be asked to vote on an issue of vital importance. Question 5 addresses the situation between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, purporting to advance a method of achieving peace. We at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel believe that the referendum is misleading and would in fact impede the peace process in the Middle East...
Dennis does not attack networking, because she sees it as an effective method of finding people to hire who will be loyal and competent. Instead she urges people to take advantage of the system,because it "is a vehicle to insure that peoplewill succeed...
...there is some method in this benign musical madness, that should come as no surprise from a singer who had written five plays by the age of 15. Born in New York City, where his father Robert helped break the color bar at the Metropolitan Opera by singing a major role in Aida in 1955, McFerrin grew up mainly in Los Angeles "in what they now call a 'dysfunctional family,' " he says. "I didn't get what I needed from my parents. They were busy dealing with their own pain." McFerrin started studying music theory at six and learned from...
...Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research firm, found that the typical VCR household rents 4 1/2 movies a month, and such viewing has almost certainly cuts into network ratings. More insidiously, the VCR -- and its high-tech sidekick, the remote-control unit -- has encouraged a new, more active method of TV viewing known as "grazing." A survey published last month by Channels magazine found that 75% of all TV homes have remote-control buttons, and nearly half of the button pushers say they switch channels frequently during programming...
...dividend payments by corporations should be eliminated. In many European countries, companies are taxed only on retained earnings and not on profits distributed as dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt by reducing, to some extent, the deductibility of interest for overleveraged nonfinancial companies...