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Sales and gaming taxes fill up about two-thirds of the state's coffers. In the past few years, tax revenues for Nevada had been gaining at a double-digit rate. Now they are forecast to shrink 9% in 2009. The state is probably going to have to cut in places like education and social services - and get creative with some new taxes on business. Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually an ardent opponent of business taxes, has discussed raising taxes for the first time...
...ambition that lusted for limelight and the talent to fill it. In the mid-'40s she landed a spot in the Katherine Dunham Dance Troupe, touring the world with this famous company of black female dancers and soon ascending to featured roles. In Paris, a nightclub owner offered her a singing job, which brought her European fame and a sheaf of sexy French ballads. (Her repertoire would eventually comprise songs in 10 languages...
...sable under the tree / For me. / Been an awful good girl, Santa baby, / So hurry down the chimney tonight. ... Come and trim my Christmas tree / With some decorations bought at Tiffany. / I really do believe in you. / Let's see if you believe in me. ... Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex/ And checks. / Sign your X on the line, Santa cutie / And hurry down the chimney tonight." Hurry down the chimney? Kitt expressed this lubricious sentiment in buttoned-down 1953, the beginning of the Eisenhower years. Yikes...
...only "frigid, highly religious" students avoided Cambridge's vices, Bristed endeavored to engage with his peers in sin. In one humorous passage he explains how he created the illusion that he enjoyed the incessant flow of alcohol as much as his classmates did: "The colored glass enabled me to fill and empty, in appearance, many times, while in reality I only poured out and tasted a few drops." (See pictures of the Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race...
...across much of the developing world, with the highest growth rate in Africa, now a source of ever more priests sent out to work in European and North American countries facing clergy shortage. Latin American Catholics, who had high hopes back in 2005 that one of their Cardinals would fill John Paul II's papal slippers, are battling to hold onto their faithful, who have been moving to evangelical Protestant churches in droves over the past two decades. The current German Pope has focused much of his attention on efforts to reinvigorate traditional Catholicism in Europe, the historical headquarters...