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...Last year I wrote about ?The Madness of George W.,? a ragged farce that took potshots at the Bush Administration and bragged that it was ?kept bang-up-to-the-minute with daily re-writes churned out at a furious pace by the writer.? This week at the National Theatre, David Hare?s play ?Stuff Happens? begins previews. It?s about George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, whose quote (?Stuff happens? and it?s untidy, and freedom?s untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.?) inspired the play?s title. Like...
...went on to marry a woman from an Alsatian Jewish family, settle in Paris' historically Jewish Marais neighborhood and raise a family as a proud citizen of the French republic. His son Alain is still here, but his faith in the republic is gone. Disturbed by the increasing pace of attacks against Jews and their property in France, Alain Elbeze, 52, has resolved to move with his wife and five children to Israel. "Look at this," he says, gesturing at the barriers erected in front of his synagogue on the Boulevard de Belleville in Paris' east end. "I didn...
...should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like the "Complete Peanuts" suffer from the monotony of the square panels and the tedious pace of setup?development?punch line. Printed with just one, enlarged strip per page, the A+J collection not only avoids this pitfall, but leaps over it. The bleak negativity of the message has its counterpoint in the constant variety of the form. The two combined make Mark Beyer...
...change the corporate tax code so that amounts owed would be determined by gross rather than net income, which in theory would allow Big Business fewer deductions. She also wants to raise the country's "sin taxes" so that the levy for sales of cigarettes and alcohol keep pace with inflation. (Since 1998, taxes on certain alcohol and cigarette brands have been set by the legislature at fixed amounts.) The tax bureau estimates that this change alone could increase tax receipts by at least $225 million annually...
...organization behind the protest. "Young doctors aren't going into surgery. Why should they when they can earn twice as much working as radiologists, without midnight emergency calls and malpractice lawsuits?" The surgeons' immediate complaint is about money. Cuq says that while rates for general practitioners have generally kept pace with inflation, government-mandated reimbursements for surgical procedures haven't changed in the last 15 years. "For a standard operation to remove varicose veins, a French surgeon in a hospital gets the same payment of roughly j80 that he did in 1990," Cuq claims. The Health Ministry has offered...