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...long-awaited pub, will be able to do just that. But visitors can rest assured that the revelry won’t come at the expense of historical ambience. The pub’s planners have equipped the new space, located under Annenberg Hall in the Memorial Hall complex, with everything from museum artifacts to paintings to bring patrons back to the tavern’s 19th-century origins. (The pub shares it name with a Southwark, England, drinkery that was among the properties bequeathed by John Harvard to the University upon his death.) Following the pub?...
...rare case of technology not squeezing out the middlemen, and travel agents and stockbrokers are surely jealous. But the explanation is pretty simple: over time, the tax code has grown more and more complex, much too intricate for the average taxpayer to want to wade into. Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which simplified the code by taking away many tax preferences, managed to add complexity by limiting certain deductions to people falling into particular income brackets. In 2001 and 2003, just about the time tax prep technology should have been cementing its hold on the mass market, substantial...
...Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic sonics that seem plucked straight from U2’s “Joshua Tree.” Consider him a revisionist, not a plagiarist. Bird’s music often complements a simple melody in the foreground with complex string arrangements in the background. However, in some songs, he tends to oversimplify. In “Plasticities,” Bird matches his voice with the guitar, note-for-note. Although it aligns with his style of mixing the simple with the mega-sonic, here it comes...
...grandiose vision that never materializes. Parts of the film left open to interpretation are hopelessly unclear and cannot convey the gravity of Starks’ personal conflict and psychological devolution. “First Snow” fails because it never brings together the elements needed to convey its complex message...
...turns out, the situation is far more complex. In a paper published in next Tuesday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, a team of climate researchers reports that worldwide tree growth would actually warm the atmosphere, despite the corresponding decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide...