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...Uncle Sam may be knocking at Mass. Hall soon. Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it would seek financial records from 400 tax-exempt American colleges and universities in a continuing review of their fiscal practices. Clearly, the government remains skeptical about the lack of operational transparency in educational institutions. The 33-page questionnaire—which Harvard may or may not be selected to complete—seeks to uncover universities policies regarding everything from endowment spending to executive compensation. The decision by the IRS to gather this information is not objectionable, as they undoubtedly have...
...will have to make cuts, and they will not want to have the entire impact be on local residential property taxes. Trash collection fees, snow removal, street cleaning, public safety, fire safety, education could all be affected.” Both Galluccio and Kale, as well as city councillor Sam Seidel, discussed the possibility of communities being forced to increase property taxes to ensure that local programs remain solvent. “I have no doubt that we would look at [hiking property taxes], I don’t know if we would...
...meager diets. Many children have stopped attending school because of hunger, while their parents are choosing to spend their days searching for food rather than show up for work. "So far, not many people are dying compared to the 1990s, but the situation is still bad," says Ham Myoung Sam, a manager with the Seoul-based aid group Korea Food for the Hungry International...
...fall's most promising import is also the most potentially susceptible to this problem. The premise of ABC's Life on Mars (Thursdays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9) is ludicrous but irresistible: New York City cop Sam Tyler (Jason O'Mara) gets hit by a car and does a reverse Rip Van Winkle, coming to 35 years ... earlier. Inexplicably trapped in 1973 (he awakens wearing a collar with the wingspan of a 747), he returns to his precinct, tries to get his bearings and eventually finds himself working on a case directly connected to the one he was working...
...come home? And what does it all have to do with the David Bowie title song? We don't know, and the pilot doesn't bother making it plausible, but it does play up the time-travel culture-clash aspects for all they're worth. Even the predictable situations - Sam mentions his cell phone to a cop who answers, "You need to sell what?" - pay off. (A more somber, striking moment: Sam looks up after he comes to and sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination is how the show plays...