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...City Council has been split for decades between two distinct groups. On the current council, four members are endorsed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the good-government group that originally backed Plan E. The other five bill themselves as Independents...
...general, the quality of life is good, the crime rate is relatively low, and the corruption is not the type that hurts people in an obvious way. It takes a subtler eye to perceive the conflicts of interest, arrogance and non responsiveness that plague the current Republican regime...
...become more acceptable to speak critically about Israel during the last two years, critics have worked hard to draw important distinctions. Those who condemn current policies of the Israeli government underscore that, in doing so, they are not denying Israel's right to exist. Similarly, critics of the Israeli role in the occupied territories are careful to distinguish between governance in the territories and policy within Israel proper...
...current tax system discriminates against capital gains in one way: it ignores inflation. If a stock has doubled during a time when the general price level has also doubled, the real profit is zero, but you'll pay a capital- gains tax anyway when you sell. Of course, the same is true of interest -- an 8% return on a money-market fund at a time of 5% inflation is really only 3% -- but no one is proposing to do anything about that. Furthermore, no one is proposing to limit the deduction for interest paid. In a world with no taxes...
...breaching the contract. Warner has asked the court for a permanent injunction, on which the court is expected to rule this week, to prevent Guber and Peters from working for anyone else. Warner contends that Guber and Peters are responsible for more than 50 of the studio's current projects, including the film version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Sony and the two producers are countersuing for $100 million, charging Warner with fraudulently denying that it had an oral arrangement to release Guber and Peters from their contract and with trying to sabotage Sony's Hollywood ventures...