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...Good as it was, however, the prospect today seems to me even more exciting,” he wrote in the early 1940s, “and I have to confess to a twinge of envy as I contemplate the ‘goodies’ that lie ahead for...the next generation...
...Great Tax Wars (Simon & Schuster; 419 pages), an absorbing history of the income tax. Weisman monitors the argument--which continues today--from the time that Abraham Lincoln first pushed through Congress an unprecedented tax on income in 1862 to pay the Union's immense war expenses, to the early 1940s, when a far larger conflict turned America into a nation of more or less uncomplaining income tax payers...
Fortunately, today unlike the 1930s and 1940s, Jews are not helpless. There is Israel. There is America and there are good people like Summers, who are ready to stand up and say no to the evil of anti-Semitism...
...stumbled onto Stairs to the Roof, an obscure Tennessee Williams play, in a bookstore. This weekend, in the Leverett House Old Library Theatre, a cast of entirely Harvard undergraduates will be putting on this play’s fourth performance (it was perfomed twice in the 1940s and not again until last year at the University of Illinois). Because of the relative obscurity of the play, the actors, director and production assistants all looked at this show without Broadway or high school productions to influence them. For this reason, producer Katherine O’Gara ’05 calls...
...raided Airbus headquarters in Toulouse and took away documents. An Airbus spokesman says the company doesn't comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew routes across Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing...