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...million it pays on non-tax-exempt properties. The extra $1.7 million that Harvard pays voluntarily under the PILOT is all gravy. We are not at all opposed to the PILOT program as such, but for Cambridge to anxiously squeal for more, instead of graciously acknowledging this gift from one of its largest taxpayers, is absurd. Cambridge will always put voting residents ahead of the students who call the city home, so trying to get more money out of the University is an understandable move; but to pursue this policy relentlessly and arrogantly, to pursue it in the face...
...spirit of the holidays, I have decided to give you, my loyal readers, a gift. Before you get too excited, I should confess that I’m cheap, and there are a lot of you, so I’ve opted to give something that is very inexpensive—in fact, it’s free. For some of you, however, this gift will change your lives: It will save you from wasted time and frustration, help you avoid embarrassing trips to the help desk in the Science Center basement—it might even improve your grades...
...insisted there had been no intervention at all. (He later said he had forgotten the e-mail and fax.) Several missteps had steered him toward this patch of political quicksand. The public seemed willing to forgive his three-year affair with a married woman - his hardscrabble background, blindness and gift for straight talk bought him sympathy - but worried that his judgment had become skewed when he went to court to demand access to his lover's 2-year-old boy, who Blunkett says is his son. An authorized biography full of nasty remarks about his Cabinet colleagues was released...
...Monopoly Pricing Just in time for holiday gift buying, a British appeals tribunal upheld a ruling made by regulators against two retailers fined for fixing prices in conjunction with the toy firm Hasbro. The regulators say their earlier decision lowered the price of the board game Monopoly by about $8 a set. One retailer, Argos, said it might roll the dice and file a further appeal...
...traditional movie would have these princesses of the Third World teach the rich Anglos lessons in humanity as John and Flor join hearts across the border. Oh, that happens here, with dollops of the rueful, self-aware wit that is Brooks' unique gift; nobody else writes jokes with such acute ethical shading. But there's a tarantula on the angel-food cake: John's manic wife Deb (Téa Leoni). Deb is Brooks' first real villain, a character everyone in the film can reject. Leoni, investing an awful energy in her role, puts the pang in Spanglish and throws...