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Lawmakers have toyed with curbing the mortgage deduction for 30 years, both for utilitarian reasons (to boost tax revenue) and philosophical ones (to make the tax code less favorable to the wealthy). Yet each time the idea has surfaced it has been swatted away amid public outrage and the battle cries of every real estate lobbyist not sunning at his second home on Fiji. This time the outrage may be even more shrill, given the fears of a real estate bubble about to burst. "We are raising the loudest possible alarms," said Tom Stevens, president of the National Association...
...audience mid-performance, and asked about their reactions the first time they heard about the Nuremberg trials. DiMuro proceeded to build a dance out of the gestures audience members made while speaking. He then had the entire audience perform this gestural dance, and the experience of sitting amid the sea of gesturing arms and participating in the dance truly evoked a comforting sense of shared experience. The dancers onstage repeated this dance of gestures towards the conclusion of the piece. The audience’s personal stake in that dance made seeing its final recapitulation especially poignant, and deepened...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Even in nuclear-resistant Europe, official attitudes are shifting. Bulgaria is currently holding a tender for two new reactors; British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who last week hosted an international conference on climate change, has called for a debate about the future of nuclear power amid signs that the government may order several new plants; and in both Germany and Sweden, public debates are raging as to whether to reverse a previous commitment to shut down existing reactors. It's no surprise that Lauvergeon talks about a "nuclear renaissance...
...Bosnia, Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications, the ''end of history'' had arrived in the triumph of free-market democracy. But the brilliant moment faded, and left a sinister aftermath. The shadow was evident last week in Russia, where the followers of the fascistically minded Vladimir Zhirinovsky unexpectedly won 23% of the popular vote...
...soccer moms etched their frustration into the tough velum of the lantern. Fifty-year-old men with mustaches festered in the shadows, eyeing the pumpkins lustily. Cheddar Ted argued with a volunteer about how to produce “the opposite of a question mark.” Amid this mayhem, something had eluded us. Even though we had lit literally hundreds of jack o’ lanterns in the pouring rain and taken some mad creepy photos, we felt that same emptiness that often results from eating an entire bag of candy corn. Just then, we spotted Stollichnaya whiling...