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Although Wolf says she remains committed to helping the small property owners resolve their problems, she insists that issues like the conflicts ordinance have created a needless political antagonism...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Small Property Owners Add New Voice To Debate at Weekly Council Sessions | 1/24/1990 | See Source »

Penalties plagued the Crimson in its season-opening defeat to Yale, and Harvard will have to avoid needless trips to the box tonight...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Icemen Look for Payback | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

DeVito's transformation of a sun-splashed showplace into a haunted house is admirable, and so is his pacing. Turner is, needless to say, beautiful when she's angry -- sinuous, calculating, purring before she pounces. Douglas makes something equally good of the self-righteousness and self-pity with which some males exercise territorial imperatives. And both contrive to suggest that their warfare is a kind of perverse courtship, a form of preening designed to achieve a surrender that goes far beyond the sexual. You can take or leave the implication that all marriages (and all divorces) may have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marriage to The Bitter End | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

...various letters to scholarship sponsors. I had hoped for its return since teh disk had my name on it along with my address and phone number of my freshman year. However, I received nothing until this past Wednesday. I left my room to find my disk on my threshold. Needless to say, I was pleased at its return. However, when I was about to place it in its box, I noticed that someone had written a note to me. It consisted of one world and was written like this: "NIGGER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism on Campus | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

...found a tax loophole. Under Australian tax law, you could lease any asset -- say, a tractor -- from its owner and get a tax deduction for all payments of principal and interest, as long as you had no right to the asset at the end of the term. (The law, needless to say, was framed to help undercapitalized businesses that cannot afford new tractors, not financiers who want to turn a Manet into a tax loss.) Bond had the Manet from Chemical on such an operating lease and got tax write- offs on it that may have run as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Anatomy of a Deal | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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