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...since 1980, to the point where 1 in every 4.3 French citizens now works for the government and the salaries of these fonctionnaires now eat up 43% of the national budget. Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy says reducing government employees is "a major objective," and has already announced plans to axe 5,000 tax inspectors. For an élite group of French men and women, the most egregious tax is the "solidarity tax on fortunes," probably the world's broadest tax on wealth, rather than income. Enacted in its current form in 1988 under François Mitterrand...
...hasn't even been open two months yet, but already, 30 St. Mary Axe, a sleek building in the heart of the City of London, has settled into the skyline and become an icon of the British capital. Affectionately dubbed "the Gherkin," the skyscraper is a hit with everyone from architects to heritage lovers to ordinary Londoners, while its environmentally smart design takes advantage of natural light and ventilation, using just half the energy of a typical office block. Designed by Sir Norman Foster for global reinsurers Swiss Re, the building's elegant outline has reassured locals that architecture...
Squaring off twice against Union in the season’s opening weekend, Corriero took an axe to the record books, smoking the Dutchwomen for a school-record six goals in the first game, adding four assists for a record-tying 10 points, before notching a hat trick and three more helpers the following...
...final axe fell for Pomey and Gomes that next February, when the full Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to dismiss the pair. Dismissal is a rare and severe punishment at Harvard. While dismissed students can technically re-enroll, it takes another vote of the Faculty to allow it. Twenty-five students had been dismissed in the 66 years prior to the action against Pomey and Gomes, and only nine were subsequently readmitted...
...that we New Yorkers are coddled elitists with more than our fair share of neuroses. Or at least that’s what you’d hear if you asked the average Harvard student. Even after four years here, it still seems like this campus still has an axe to grind with me and my fellow City dwellers...