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...credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes. Nor is it at all clear how European tax authorities could audit the flow of international e-commerce or sanction those that don't levy...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...
...Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton on an economic plan for impoverished areas 52. Rebels demanded this Fijian President step down 53. Henley crewman 54. James in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
They objected that the site recommendation--first presented to members at the school committee meeting last night--was hurried and lacked the sanction of the steering committee, a group of parents, teachers and district officials that has met weekly since fall to discuss the merger...
...specific. Their point, most often is to make you think, often to point out the discrepancies between the culture and expectations of the army and those of American society. They're deep. War and the army require different values, society recognizes, simply by way of the fact that they sanction killing. Soldiers surrender their most treasured American privilege, autonomy, to a world of orders and discipline. What the war trial movie usually asks, then, is to what extent can the values of society be eschewed in the protection of the institution that created them...