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...only 35 percent of $109.5 million in taxes to be levied this year will come from personal property, while commerce and industry will bear 65 percent of the tax burden, said Kevin T. McDevitt, one of the city's two principal assessors. He added that residential property will make up the lowest percentage of the tax base in recent history...
Although SPIL members have discussed the idea of extending their legal assistance to landlords, Dee said that the group's limited resources make such a scheme unworkable. And by representing property owners, she said, the group would lose its effectiveness as tenant advocates...
...Judaism--the prayers, holidays, rituals and such--are themselves an integral part, indeed, the foundation of Jewish culture. For me, the Jewish cultural heritage consists of Eastern European Jews coming to New York City; for Jews in Tel Aviv or Warsaw or the Soviet Union, the cultural experiences that make up Jewish life may be different...
...moral issue involved here? Or is this simply a reflection of a pragmatic attempt by editors to echo the values and interests of their readers? And does it really make a difference whether Americans know about disasters elsewhere? It certainly does when it comes to amassing donations or building a congressional coalition for emergency relief. It also matters in a less material way because every social contract, from the tribe to the United Nations, is based on recognizing common human bonds. Whether the fault lies with news consumers or with editors who pander to them, the bell ought to toll...
Slovenia (pop. 2.1 million), one of the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia, provided a reminder last week of why the word Balkanization is a synonym for divisiveness. Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest...