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...those looking to such a tax to protect against future calamities, there's even more disappointment. Squeezing the volume of financial trading wouldn't have done much to tackle the eye-watering debts and shoddy risk assessment at the oversize banks that got us into the current pickle. That job falls to regulators. Moreover, evidence of the impact of transaction charges on the volatility of assets is mixed: buyers in Britain's housing market - which, like many others around the world, cratered in 2007 - have been required to pay a transaction tax on their purchases for years. (Read...
...entries especially caught her eye: a man who had done the most number of cartwheels in an hour, and another who had the most number of snails stuck to his face for 10 seconds. But though she had some gymnastics experience, she did not feel up to the challenge of doing over 1,000 cartwheels. And she did not “want to be known as the girl who stuck snails to her face...
...When you win the league two years in a row, we’re pinning a bulls’ eye on ourselves,” said captain and defensive lineman Carl Ehrlich. “We took Penn out of contention last year...we know they’ll be gunning and looking for payback...
...poem, has resulted in an ambiguity as to how the poem’s visual arrangement informs the way it’s to be read aloud. Since the primary sense being used in reciting poems today is sight, the poet has shifted his aims to stimulate the eye, at times privileging it over...
...capital murder to taking a gun to the base. Hasan also may face a noncapital charge of murdering an unborn child because one of the victims, Francheska Velez, was three months pregnant. Both sides will probably want to have Hasan undergo psychiatric evaluation, with the defense perhaps having an eye on mitigating any sentence. Galligan is unlikely to be able mount an insanity defense for his client because military law makes it difficult. It requires a finding of severe disability or defects that render the defendant incapable of discerning a wrongful...