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...individuals. The very notion of tax "harmonization" is vigorously opposed by some governments, particularly Britain and the new member states in Eastern Europe where rates are lowest; the latter see harmonization as a code word for higher taxes. The result is a patchwork of sometimes widely divergent policies that tend to treat domestic operations differently from international ones for corporate tax purposes. For the past few years, the E.C.J. has consistently ruled against any tax treatment that differentiates between domestic and E.U.-based affairs. De Hosson, for example, represented a Dutch auto-parts company named Bosal Holding that...
...getting the ground troops mobilized behind a cause long scorned as touchy-feely nonsense requires a bit of creativity. (Witness the flop of the 2002 "What would Jesus drive?" campaign.) Thus some religious leaders are linking pollution to the hot-button issue of unborn tots, who, after all, tend to be the most vulnerable to environmental toxins. At the pro-life march in Washington in January, two evangelical activists carried a large banner urging STOP MERCURY POISONING OF THE UNBORN. The idea for the banner came from Richard Cizik, vice president of the National Association of Evangelicals--who, perhaps...
...appearances, we are concerned with charges of radicalism: not because we don’t want to be “radical,” but because we care about issues that aren’t considered radical too. Our less “radical” events also tend to be our less noticed events, however, and from the way our critics portray us, you might be surprised to find out about our Same-Sex Marriage Panel or our Supporter Appreciation Event. Nevertheless, queer issues of national importance also resonate at Harvard, and we try our best to address...
Reuben also said that she believed the abundance of liberals in academia could be due to the fact that as people become more educated, they tend to become more liberal...
Yankee Stadium traditions bear vague similarities to those at Fenway, but Yankee fans tend to be more obscene, lacking even the shreds of subtlety that would make their statements funny. Fenway, for example, has its middle-of-the-eighth tradition of playing Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” to which all 35,000 Sox faithful sing along...