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...established tactic. In the early 1500s, Pope Leo X underwrote his lavish lifestyle in part by taxing licensed prostitutes, and Peter the Great preyed on Russian vanity two centuries later by charging men who grew beards. In the Federalist papers, American patriot Alexander Hamilton proposed an excise tax on alcohol to boost revenues and curb consumption. The measure, enacted in 1791, sparked the Whiskey Rebellion, in which federal authorities were forced to quash an uprising by livid Pennsylvania settlers...
...television saga Rumpole of the Bailey, starring Leo McKern as barrister Horace Rumpole, ran from 1978 to 1992, and the books continued until the recent death of author (and lawyer) John Mortimer...
...worked for Kerouac! Cancer Admit it—your G-mail inbox is more crowded than Noch’s on a Saturday night. But don’t miss those gems in your spam folder: why not “learn the perfect trick of lovemaking”? Leo Sick of snow in March? Light up your life with a new flame—hey HBS Rugby Team heyyy. Virgo We’re in the midst of midterms and procrastination is beckoning, but save Gossip Girl for later. Spoiler: Chuck and Blair get married. Sorry we?...
With reporting by Leo Cendrowicz / Brussels
Instead, the task force talked to Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell ($175,000), Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter ($167,000) and United Steelworkers of America president Leo Gerard (who reportedly earns over $170,000). "[The Vice President] is doing the right thing," says Karen Nussbaum, executive director of Working America, "but hearing directly from working people who are struggling and finding their way is an essential part of this...