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Enter eight reindeer, to the sound of sleigh bells. Supply-side theory, developed by Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer and passionately advanced by New York Representative Jack Kemp, held that sharp cuts in income taxes would actually increase government revenues by unleashing the pent-up power of the economy. Jobs...
In 1930, when Lowell House was being built, plans called for the tower to feature four clocks. But a faculty member, travelling in the Soviet Union, discovered a set of 400-year-old bells from St. Danilov's monastery that Stalin planned to melt for ammunition. The man wired Harvard...
Only 23 of the original 44 bells were saved. 22 now sit in Lowell's tower, where they were arranged by a Russian monk. The largest weighs 12.5 tons, and measures nine feet in diameter. The second largest, and the only bell outside Lowell, can be found atop the Business...
Unfortunately, the score is not Menken's greatest. Musical highlights besides "Hellfire" include the opening "Bells of Notre Dame" and "Heaven's Light," but none of these match "Circle of Life" from "The Lion King" or "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin."
There is evidence--disputed by the principals--that the money does produce big and nicely targeted concessions from the parties who take it in. According to Common Cause, regional and long-distance telephone companies won concessions in the telecommunications bill last year in tandem with their record soft-money giving...