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Although different lawmakers blame different people for a lack of initiative on the tax package, most on Beacon Hill seem to admit that some form of tax increase will be passed before the end of the fiscal year in late June. If not to save the state from this year's mammoth deficit, they say, new taxes are necessary to prevent an even worse situation next year...
Thelma, the cashier at the local U-Save convenience store and Exxon station, also said she thought highly of Harvard. Her daughter graduated from here two years...
...bought it for an undisclosed sum last week. Acquired at auction in November 1987 for $53.9 million by the Australian conglomerator and promoter Alan Bond, Irises was the most expensive work of art ever sold. Its price created an artificial euphoria that bulled the world art market and helped save it from the October ( '87 Wall Street crash. The name of the underbidder was never revealed, raising suggestions -- indignantly denied by the auctioneers -- that the price had been manipulated. The sale was financed with $27 million lent by Sotheby's: a margin-trading deal in line with the stock-exchange...
...inspection behind double glass.) Efforts to sell it at the high price failed. Since informed art-dealing sources concurred late last year that the right price for Irises would be around $35 million, it is unlikely that the Getty paid more than $40 million. But the actual price, to save everyone's face, seems bound to remain one of the mysteries of the American art industry...
Idaho's politicians were not the only ones to tussle with abortion last week. The U.S. territory of Guam outlawed all abortions except to save the life of the mother, but a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure. In Maryland, after an eight-day filibuster, the state Senate passed two bills -- one allowing abortion, the other severely restricting it -- and encouraged the state's voters to decide in a referendum next fall. "That gives politicians license to say they're pro-choice to one person and antiabortion to the next," charges delegate Patricia Sher. It would have been a politician...