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...single market, national governments continue to jealously guard the right to set their own direct taxation of companies and individuals. The very notion of tax "harmonization" is vigorously opposed by some governments, particularly Britain and the new member states in Eastern Europe where rates are lowest; the latter see harmonization as a code word for higher taxes. The result is a patchwork of sometimes widely divergent policies that tend to treat domestic operations differently from international ones for corporate tax purposes. For the past few years, the E.C.J. has consistently ruled against any tax treatment that differentiates between domestic...
...social commentary is not the draw of Gilbert and Sullivan—light farce and playful ditties are. At least in the latter, the work succeeds—the music is reminiscent of a fifties melodrama and suits the story well. However, the lyrics fall flat in places, and they were sometimes difficult to hear with the orchestral accompaniment (or perhaps simply poor acoustics in the Agassiz Theatre). Nonetheless, the singing itself evidenced the actors’ skills...
...American music with a head-bobbing beat and unflappable composure. A groove this good could only have come straight from the source: I can picture Beck wandering the back alleys and dirt-caked hamlets of the American South armed only with a good ear and a tape recorder, a latter-day Alan Lomax...
...cooked in its ink—which proved rather awful—I discussed comics with Elvis. I told him of my affinity for Alan Moore’s seminal series, Watchmen, and he suggested another book: Frank Miller’s Sin City. As it turns out, the latter was a fantastic comic book and made a pretty good movie...
Even these characters though, who provide a welcome relief from the monotony of many of these descriptions, are too flimsy to ever really come to life. Perowne’s wife and daughter are lifeless: the former appears too infrequently and unmemorably to spark interest, while the latter comes across as slightly demented in her cloying girlishness...