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...extension would mean big bucks for corporate America. And unlike "carryforwards," which can only be realized if a company returns to profitability, carrybacks generate immediate cash, as long as the company has earned money in the past half-decade. The Joint Committee on Taxation recently estimated that the carryback extension would result in refunds of $33 billion to companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recession Dividend: A Boom in Corporate Tax Credits | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...Storey ’12, a Quincy resident, is a Half-Orc Rogue name, a “sneaky stab you in the back pick locks type of guy,” according to Alessandro. Ian’s character is named Erran, pronounced like “Erin...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Dungeon | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami's Cuban-American hard-liners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half-dozen trips to Cuba during this decade have changed his mind about the latter. "There are no better ambassadors of American culture and American democracy than Americans themselves," says Herrero, 31. Many fellow Cuban Americans who've traveled there, he adds, have come to the same conclusion: they "always come back saying it was a completely eye-opening experience" and have "changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban End Soon? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...double the annual flow since 2004, when then President George W. Bush put the restrictions in place. If the travel ban were lifted altogether, recent studies suggest some 3 million Americans would visit Cuba each year. It's uncertain whether they would be effective ambassadors. But after almost a half-century of failed policy, most Cuban Americans have decided that letting Americans travel to Cuba would be more effective than keeping them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban End Soon? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...treaty's supporters have long argued that the measures are essential to ensure the organization designed over half a century ago for six member countries can meet the demands of more than two dozen nations and a half billion people today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Treaty Ratified, the E.U. Turns to Picking Its Leader | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

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