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...upstart enters a market and fares plunge. And the edgy Catalan chef Ferran Adria (November) got his own cooking show on Spanish TV. Of course, some of our rebels have had problems. Joseph Park, founder of the defiantly free U.S. delivery service Kozmo (September), had to impose a $2 fee on small orders to make ends meet. And Steve Stanford's Icebox.com (September), which had the Web's coolest cartoons, closed after running out of cash...
...addition, the Ivy League currently has a rule that would override the proposed NCAA rule change. The Ivy League forbids student-athletes from working on a fee-for-lessons basis in any sport...
...pause at this list. One interesting effect of such a review is the exaggerated importance of detail and pattern. The taxes surveyed, contested or not, concern either property already acquired (land, assets, beards) or some kind of procedural fee (marriage, burial, customs duties and a flat fee for foreigners to participate in the local economy—however problematic, by our standards, this determination of foreignness may have been). The detail which stands out, making the list seem more like a Borgesian encyclopedia than a record of tax law, is that of souls...
...might guess that souls were used as some kind of proxy, i.e., a way of saying that every living human on Russian soil was liable for a certain fee. But intuitive problems inherent in taxing souls are borne out by a more rigorous examination of the action at hand. Merriam-Webster traces tax from Middle English, “to estimate, assess, tax;” to Old French taxer, to Medieval Latin taxare; and finally to Latin, “to feel, estimate, censure, (frequentative of tangere to touch).” The tangibility of assets taxed (as well...
...troubling, competition-wise, for a cabal of the Big Five airlines to be cooperatively selling their own version of "competitive fares." It's because Expedia and Travelocity are members of capitalism's longest-standing endangered species: the middleman. They currently charge the airlines a $15 fee for every round-trip ticket, a cost the airlines say - and you can probably believe them - is ultimately passed on to the consumer...