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...This group wound up paying a larger share of the nation’s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting taxes to the wealthy. Bush covered up his gift to the uber-elite by dishing out a little pain to the kinda-elite...
...tavern once located in Southwark, England that John Harvard left to the University in addition to his library and his fortune. Although the original tavern burnt down in 1876, it will be enshrined in the new pub set to open next February in honor of the original gift, Corker said. Next fall, there will be a string of pub-related events for students leading up to the grand opening of Queen’s Head. In October, students will be invited to an “unveiling” open house where they will see the pub?...
...About Jim Jones, a childhood friend recalled, "There was something not quite right. He was obsessed with religion. He was obsessed with death." But he always had the spellbinder?s gift of bending people to his will, which meshed strangely with his seemingly progressive, inclusive social agenda. Paraphrasing Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Jones proclaimed, "Wherever there are people struggling for justice and righteousness, there am I." One of his early churches, in Indianapolis in 1953, was fully interracial when that wasn?t cool. Moving to California, he established the People?s Temple, which grew from 81 members...
...even the briefest excerpts and paraphrases demonstrate, Saunders is a highly original writer, with a peculiar gift for presenting the familiar in new and bizarre combinations that force us to pay attention to what we might ordinarily take for granted...
...tone turns serious. “But that’s not my concern,” he says. “If I was worried about money, I’d have taken the office route. I know that I love music so much and I have a gift for it, and I want to squeeze that out as much as I can and as long as I can until I can’t squeeze anymore...