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...Winthrop Drama Society production of Burn This is a great show--and the Winthrop House audience won't let you forget it. No words adequately describe the slapping of thighs and wobbling of bellies resonating through the makeshift theater in the Winthrop JCR. They laugh; they cry; they hoot; they grimace; they guffaw; they constitute a spectacle in themselves...
...home-mortgage deductions on their income taxes and others. Social Security taxes, for example, are counted against spending on pensions and the like; an increase in tax collections reduces net outlays and thus qualifies, to government accountants anyway, as a spending cut. All this will give Republicans reason to hoot again at tax-and-spend Democrats...
Sifting through my box, I got to three of those owl valentines first. You know, the ones that say, "It'd be a HOOT if you'd be my Valentine!" They're the friendship valentines that card companies need to make so that you don't have to worry about people getting the wrong idea. Turtle valentines are pretty good for that, too, as I recall...
MEMBERS OF AN EXTREMELY PRIVATE, INVITATION-ONLY NEW York investors group called AEA thought it was a hoot when they persuaded former General Motors chairman ROGER SMITH last year to take over as CEO of one of their investments, a tidy little group of rubber-and-plastics manufacturers with operations in Ohio, Virginia and Georgia. Before long, though, the company was declining fast. Since nobody can bear to fire Smith, investment bankers say the owners are now quietly trying to peddle the firm for far less than they paid...
...silence hangs over the factories and the shipyards, punctuated only by the hoot of Delaware boat whistles and the crunch of demolition crews -- in the past several years, the city has razed more than 1,200 abandoned homes, nearly 5% of its housing stock. On the worst blocks, two-thirds of the buildings have collapsed or burned. "I think of Camden basically as a doughnut," says Joe Balzano, CEO of the South Jersey Port Corp. "Everything worthwhile is on the edges, and the center is hollow...