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...when Ward's book ends, F.D.R. had not yet become F.D.R. It was only his later struggle with polio that added the necessary steel to his character. Ward is already at work on sequel. It cannot fail to reveal a stranger, stronger character, but it will build on this odd foundation. --By Otto Friedrich
...Near the Miyuki Bridge I met my classmate Kimura. Kimura belonged to the odd-numbered group, so he had been working in the streets when the bomb went off. His face was charred. He lived in West Hiroshima, and he said he was going home, which meant that he was heading back toward the direction of the hypocenter. I told him that it was impossible to go back, that the area was all in flames. He was delirious and would not listen to me. He only repeated, 'I want to go home. I want to go home.' He walked away...
...pretty strong stuff," says Fred de Hosson, a tax partner at Baker & McKenzie in Amsterdam. "It's another wake-up call for member states" to bring their tax systems closer in line. But it's a wake-up call that could have been anticipated. Tax has long been the odd man out of European integration. While E.U. states have largely coordinated their policies on value-added tax and custom duties to smooth the workings of the single market, national governments continue to jealously guard the right to set their own direct taxation of companies and individuals. The very notion...
Earlier this season, the Crimson began 2005 in typical odd-year fashion at CRASH-Bs, the annual indoor rowing championships held at Roxbury Community College...
...being an odd year, and the Crimson fielding its deepest squad in several seasons, Harvard has every reason to be confident...