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...that in four of the last five years, Enron paid no income taxes. What’s more, it was entirely legal. Through a variety of loopholes, including 800 subsidiaries in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, Enron managed to earn $1.8 billion without owing the government a cent. In fact, the company got a net rebate of $381 million, your tax dollars and mine...
...Both [KSG] Dean Joseph Nye and Professor Ezra Vogel invited me to Harvard,” Akiyama wrote. “I didn’t get even a cent of money from Taiwan at all. I did [not]contact [the] Taiwan side at all. I don’t know how Harvard University raises money for academic activity in general...
...Grip" uses the 1950s crime, horror and sci-fi genre comicbooks as the guide for a new, postmodern comix narrative. Hernandez sets the tone by beginning each of the five issues with a full-page mock cover of a 10-cent pulp book: "Grip of Fear," "Grippingly Romantic Western Mystery," etc. But once inside, the rules have clearly changed. Freaks, unrepentant violence, monsters and sex have been jumbled into a dizzy story that sends up the genres it revels in as much as it honors them...
...cents] Cost of a first-class stamp after a 3[cent] increase just approved...
...Palestinian attacks also spurs more attacks. And, he warns, the Palestinians have the greater capacity to absorb casualties. "As Israel's own experience in its War of Independence shows, no sacrifice is too great for a people seeking their freedom," Van Creveld writes. "Compared to the 1 per cent of the Jewish population who died in that conflict, Palestinian casualties so far have been minute...