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...effective property-tax rate 66% higher than that of the well-to-do suburb of Farmington next door. Last year Hartford city manager Raymond Eugene Shipman proposed a payroll tax on the thousands of commuters who flock to the city's downtown office towers by day but flee by night. In the 1960s and early '70s, 15 major American cities had been granted such power by their state legislatures, which must approve municipal taxes. But as the legislatures filled with representatives of the burgeoning suburbs, major cities found it harder to win taxing authority. Los Angeles has been the only...
...woman, a first-year student from Europe, says the club represented the pretentious scene she was hoping to flee when she came to America...
When it comes to explaining the trend of fraternity revival, frat members--even those involved in the founding of their organizations--don't delve into Harvard history. They also do not speak in negative terms about trying to flee the social life here or avoiding the residential houses...
...assume the role of underdog and Armenians appear to be the predatory wolves. Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of disfigured civilians, some of them scalped, others shot through the head. Armenians claim the footage is fake. They insist that they left a corridor open for civilians to flee Khojaly but that Azerbaijani soldiers led a group of 200 civilians into harm's way. The use of surface-to-air missiles, sophisticated Grad rocket batteries and armor proves that both sides are now armed with state-of-the-art weapons that were bequeathed by, sold by or stolen from...
TODAY IS A DAY observed across the globe as one of prayer and mourning--prayer for the rescue of the oppressed Jewish community in Syria and mourning for the four women who were murdered while trying to flee Syria...