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...Taxpayers will also be looking forward to benefits from the drop in the taxes that they pay to the government. One of two things will happen. Most of the money will go to savings and paying debts or it will work its way back into the economy in the form of consumer spending. A lot of data about car sales, unemployment, exports, capital goods, retail spending, and consumer confidence will come out next month. None of it will say much about the future. It will really only reflect what has happened in the economy since the beginning of the year...
...with enough determination and inspiration - and reliable financing - transformation can happen. The proof is that this month, in the first part of a $1.2 billion, multistage redesign of its 16 acre (6.5 hectare) campus, Lincoln Center will reopen Alice Tully Hall, its chamber-music auditorium, in a building ingeniously reconfigured to announce to anybody passing by, Come in, we're here, make yourself at home...
...staff by Iranian officials. But the organizers of the Shah 'Abbas show were unperturbed. Curator Sheila Canby says the spirit of inquiry that museums share helps them transcend political tensions. "We've been told by Iranian and British officials that this is just the kind of exchange that should happen," she says. "No matter what else happens, this is a benign and informative way to exchange ideas...
...they leave, what will happen to them? The fate of Sri Lanka's IDPs is the central political issue that will face the nation when the army claims victory. "It's how the whole world will look at the country," says an official with an international aid agency. In the best case, the camps, under the monitoring eye of U.N. agencies, will be used as holding stations where the army can weed out any LTTE fighters who remain in hiding, before allowing civilians to return to the Vanni to rebuild the north. "In the worst-case scenario, they establish concentration...
...Kiran R. Pendri ’11 will write “Futurology,” a column focusing on his creative predictions about what may happen. Mr. Pendri, who lives in Lowell House, is the son of scientists from India...