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...levy on financial-market transactions, stretched beyond foreign-currency trades to cover stocks, derivatives and other clever instruments, might offer twin benefits. By slapping an additional fee on each transaction, the tax "would naturally drive [investors] toward those that are more sensible, more profitable, more rational," suggests Julian Jessop, chief international economist at the consultancy Capital Economics in London. What's more, even a modest levy on the world's financial markets - Tobin first proposed a 1% charge on currency deals, before advocating even lower rates - would generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue. (See pictures of London during...
...Some minor constraints, but nothing major.” Harvard Director of Athletic Communications Kurt Svoboda made it clear in an e-mail that the University did “not anticipate reducing [its] varsity sports programs.” MIT Undergraduate Association President Noah Jessop said that he did not think the cuts would have much of an effect on the college decisions of current MIT admits. “I think that MIT is certainly an environment where, for a majority of students, academics are first and foremost,” he said. “Regardless...
...junk.' RUSSELL JESSOP, one of 439 kids seized from a polygamists' compound in Utah last April, describing TV and other modern trappings that he encountered during his time in custody...
...WILLIE JESSOP, spokesman for the FLDS church, after the state indicted six members of the polygamist sect--including leader Warren Jeffs--on charges related to child abuse...
There are murmurs of discontent within the Utah/Arizona FLDS community. The increasing legal troubles of the FLDS leadership could feed doubts about Jeffs, says Carolyn Jessop. However, his hold on members is not just religious. Jeffs is at the center of a financial and business trust that, among other things, assigns homes to families. "So many are networked into his crime," Jessop says. "Husbands were kicked out; ladies knew they were safe if they were obedient. If they had lots of daughters, they got handed out to everybody - it was like a feast." If a man resists the leadership...