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...down on rampant tax evasion--roughly at 50%--and the widespread abuse of legal but economically unjustified tax exemptions. "All businesses should pay tax without exemptions," says Jos Luis Barraza, president of the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial, a leading business group. But for Caldern to do this on the scale needed would seem to mean taking on the powerful business interests that dominate his party (and hamstrung Fox), which played a decisive role in electing him in his razor-thin...
What is the proper way to act when you have made a boo-boo on the scale of what Perle and Adelman now admit to? A brief period of silence might be in order, followed by a bit of ideological spring cleaning. If this big idea has turned out to be wrong, isn't it possible that some of their other ideas are also wrong? In fact, maybe their whole philosophy is mistaken. Perle and Adelman are both neoconservatives, or neocons, a group that prides itself on being tough-minded and pragmatic while rejecting liberals as soft and romantic...
During his tenure, Stone played a critical role as a liaison to the communities of Cambridge and Boston amidst the University’s large-scale construction projects in Cambridge, and development plans for a new campus in Allston...
...scale of America's troop commitment in Iraq has always been a political question, answered in the context of the concern by the war's architects to avoid provoking a Vietnam-style domestic political backlash sabotaging the mission...
...refer to it as “the” McMansion because there is really only one version sold. Designed (roughly) as a one-fiftieth scale model of the palace of Versailles, with a few elements taken from Cinderella’s Castle, the same McMansion is found all the way from Detroit to Dubuque, and everywhere in between...