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Plus, there is not even the assurance that IP telephone rates will always stay so low. By being exempt from access fees and other taxes, these IP phone companies are essentially being allowed by the government to steal a slice of the telephone pie without being subject to the same taxes and fees their competitors pay. Beyond giving them a somewhat unfair competitive advantage, this goes against the FCC's long-standing tradition of funding itself and wide-spread telephony access through taxes on long-distance phone service...
...quickly dropped, which can confuse a reader who thought this novel would be about taking a culinary journey into Greece and getting some heart-to-heart searching along the way. Instead, the novel delves superficially into many "modern" themes and experiences, and the plot line--already thinner than a slice of processed American cheese--doesn't fare well under the pressure and eventually melts away altogether...
...decades later, Samuel Ward one-upped other donors of land who had given Harvard farms, a slice of swampland and "half a house," leaving the College an entire island off the Massachusetts coast near Hingham...
...process, he'll be grilled, chased and pretty much treated like another Joseph, in Kafka's The Trial (original German title: Der Prozess). But don't let the pedigree fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak softly and carry a silver stiletto. They kill for sport...
...behind mid-term studies and celebrate Hawaii's unique culture. Most of the students came from MIT, but the luau also lured students from Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, and Wellesley. "To us this luau is not just a dinner or a show, but rather a piece of our homeland, a slice of what makes us who we are," said Steve Wong, a junior at MIT and one of the event coordinators. According to a coordinator, the goal was "not to make money," but "to share the Aloha Spirit...