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...expressed during the lengthy legislative battle to enact the value-added tax that went into effect Jan. 1. Now that it is being levied, though, one major anxiety -- a burst of inflation -- seems to have been misplaced. The Department of Finance once expected the levy to increase the price index 1.25% this year, but now, in the midst of a recession, its inflationary impact appears muted...
...Recreation" might also be a rubric for our reflection, in as much as the way we choose to relax offers a pretty reliable index to the activities of our minds. I am shocked how quickly many Harvard students choose to dismiss the themes of classroom discussion from their minds as they shift gears to relax...
...world. And the quirkiness of Eton College ensures that it still seems to belong less to life than to Lewis Carroll fiction. The boys wear coats with tails, the teachers are called beaks, and both parties greet one another on the street by simply raising a single index finger. The prefects who sweep into classrooms, gowns billowing, to summon boys to see the headmaster are known as praepostors (as in preposterous). And at Eton -- and only at Eton -- academic quarters are called halves, making three halves in a school year (though the midpoint of each is "long leave," since half...
...thumbnail index of failure, consider the number of people left out in the cold. Despite per capita medical expenditures that dwarf those of socialized systems, 37 million Americans have no health insurance at all. For the uninsured and the underinsured -- who amount to 28% of the population -- a diagnostic work-up can mean a missed car payment; a child's sore throat, an empty dinner table...
With the oxygen going out of the U.S. economy and Japanese collectors scared by the descent of their stock index, the fall sales at Sotheby's and Christie's are jolted by a major shake-out in the art market. Top-quality works still command good prices, but the overhyped contemporary field suffers a massacre, with many offerings going unsold. Moreover, the decline casts new doubts on the competitive tactics of the auction houses...