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SUBSIDY. A tax subsidy is any deduction or exemption that you oppose. In the abstract, it is possible to separate tax-code complications that relate to fairness in the tax system from complications that have some nontax-related purpose, and to call the second type a subsidy. In practice, the distinction is harder. If a person earns $100,000 and has $20,000 in medical expenses, should he or she be taxed as someone who earns $100,000 or as someone who earns $80,000? Likewise, what about a person who earns $100,000 and gives $20,000 to charity...
...semi-autobiographical play The Waverly Gallery poses these questions in a richly-woven text on losses, families, aesthetics and memories. In bringing the play to the Loeb Ex this weekend, director Rebecca R. Kastleman ’05 attempts to explore these themes in a new, abstract and surrealistic production...
...memories of his grandmother’s final days. Kastleman says her experimentation with memory and the “selective images” it creates is most apparent in the play’s set design. The umbrellas onstage that “serve to delineate an abstract, surreal and hopefully beautiful space,” are the most prominent feature of the “semi-abstracted?...
...abstract or surreal elements of the play emphasized in this production are often grounded by Lonergan’s insistence on humor...
...from what can be called a productivity problem of its own. On the one hand, industrial lobbies dedicated to preserving the status quo have tremendous sway over politicians. And on the other, there is no doubt that increasing competition in the domestic economy will draw what are now very abstract concepts into harsh focus at the local level, bringing high unemployment (at least in the short term) and the chance of social unrest. That is a reality that Japanese society has routinely proven willing to put off at all costs. But Japan might be running out of extensions...