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...Homes Bravo to Justin Fox for his comments on tax relief for homeowners in his article "Get Homes off Welfare" [Oct. 12]. I don't know if it is politically feasible or desirable to remove all benefits, but how about dismantling tax benefits for owners of second homes? In many European countries speculators build tax-subsidized holiday homes, and then rent them out at exorbitant rates while receiving substantial tax relief on their mortgages. The result is to price local people out of the property market while losing agricultural land to so-called residential development, which may well stand empty...
...last book came out five years ago), but his editor at W.W. Norton, Robert Weil, thinks this book is reaching beyond Crumb's base. One sign he's right is that it's not just selling in comic book stores. Bookscan reported sales in regular bookstores increased the second week. Amazon says most of its buyers are coming from the West Coast, which is not as surprising as the cautious promotion the book got on religious blogs. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...first station is located at Building Manager Miguel Casillas’ office, where wafer cookies, candy, and cookies abound. The second stop is at House Administrator JackieWheeler’s office, who helped to organize the event. Third station is at Mindy’s, where the pumpkin-flavored cookies are supposedly located. Fourth station is at the House Masters’, Sandra and Leigh...
...ramshackle radio station nestled in former guerrilla territory, a Colombian soldier-DJ dedicates a country-and-western-style ballad to all the rebels out there having second thoughts about la revolución. In the song, a former guerrilla touts the benefits of disarming. "My life has changed," he declares. "Now I've got a girlfriend. I'm with my family. I give thanks...
...patron to sign on as well. Other charitable causes must get the foundation's consent before using Mandela's name. This week, the foundation reprimanded actress Charlize Theron for auctioning off a package of gifts related to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which included a 20-second kiss from her and a meeting with Mandela. "Not even the charity foundations Mandela himself established are allowed to auction off time with him," the foundation said in a statement. (See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for soccer's World...