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...intentions want to tell us apart but can’t. Some people just aren’t used to distinguishing black people. There’s no formal segregation in America, but every suburb’s composition doesn’t reflect these legal updates. Through no fault of your own, Harvard may be your first real brush with blackness. And they say when you’re suddenly surrounded by darkness, it takes a while for your eyes to get well-enough adjusted to distinguish detail...
...along this old ideological fault line that the journalist Steven R. Weisman has assembled the narrative of The Great Tax Wars (Simon & Schuster; 419 pages), an absorbing history of the income tax. Weisman monitors the argument--which continues today--from the time that Abraham Lincoln first pushed through Congress an unprecedented tax on income in 1862 to pay the Union's immense war expenses, to the early 1940s, when a far larger conflict turned America into a nation of more or less uncomplaining income tax payers...
...were making our own mistakes—it was really our fault,” Ogbechie said. “But we didn’t panic, we stayed calm, and decided we need to the play to the speed we always play...
...wisdom, feels that dumping on FallFeast because the food was not savory enough is a constructive use of its influence. While the Staff’s contention that FallFeast was not successful may be true, but using slightly bland food as a jumping off point for repeating every single fault with the council in an unprovoked tirade against its leadership is not called...
...arsenal of B-boy and robot dance moves. But even with his soulful Mick Jagger strut, Beck looked like he was going through the motions. If the audience’s energy flagged too at times, it was, to steal a line from Beck, nobody’s fault...