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...poor reception? For a tax that's attracted high-profile backers like Brown and Sarkozy, its track record is thin. When Tobin first proposed the idea in 1972, it was seen as a way to stop currency speculators after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, but it was never imposed. Sweden enacted a tax on certain financial transactions in the 1980s but ditched it in 1991 after trading volumes sank. (See pictures of President Sarkozy in London...
Walmart didn't stop there. It unveiled plans to sell 100 toys for $10 apiece, roll back prices 20% to 30% on more than 100 other toys and aggressively mark down prices on DVDs, video games and other electronics even before Black Friday. Its push into electronics comes as the sector faces fewer competitors as a result of the demise of Circuit City and Tweeter over the past year. "We will not be beaten on price," said Eduardo Castro-Wright, vice chairman of Walmart Stores Inc., during the company's annual investor meeting last month. Anticipating a crush of early...
...dialogue becomes grating, however, when the film’s characters stop following normal conversation patterns, and instead begin to communicate with speeches that sound like contrived publicity blurbs for art shows. “Your work pushes the boundaries of modern thought, thrusting past the limitations of human emotion and cognition to create the ultimate expression of human consciousness,” Madeleine enthuses to an artist during a show. These kinds of inflated, preposterous mini-monologues quickly grow tiresome, and instead of humorously mocking the bourgeoisie art world, they come across as simply an irksome staple...
Journalists must stop focusing on entertainment and return to serious political investigation, said journalist and historian Taylor Branch at an Institute of Politics Forum last night...
...Crimson defense is thinking most about how to stop Penn’s running game. Quaker halfback Lyle Marsh rushed for 99 yards last week against Princeton and has averaged 4.9 yards per carry on the season...