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It’s easy to sympathize with the Watertown schoolchildren whose education might suffer due to the Arsenal purchase. It’s not their fault that the city’s tax base is small. But at the same time, it’s hard to see why Harvard should be obliged to pay what it doesn’t owe. The tax laws of the U.S. government and each of the 50 states give tax-exempt status to many non-profits. They do so because we consider charitable, educational, scientific or religious institutions to serve a valid...
Cohen points to studies showing that, unlike their younger family members, the elderly who suffer from stress are more likely to become ill. But families can help their aged relatives battle anxiety by keeping in close touch, asking pointed questions and getting help for them if necessary. Lebow suggests families buy greeting cards and send one a week to aging relatives, and encourage them to try e-mail (my mother has become an e-mail enthusiast). And the conversations about Sept. 11 can be rewarding for young and old: many people of the WW II generation report feeling that their...
...David Godwin, an agent who represents Will Self and Ben Okri. "It shows how complicated and interconnected the world is, and I think readers are going to want either to escape that or understand it better through serious literature. I think middle-of-the-road books like thrillers may suffer. That kind of fiction now comes too close to our lives...
Although specific cuts will be carefully considered, some programs will suffer due to the lack of funding, and Nye acknowledged that the deficit might prevent initiating new courses...
Neither man could stand to see a person suffer, and Jose took the loss of his son-in-law--and its effect on his daughter--badly. After the emotional drain of Jo's memorial service, Jose wanted to spend a week in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. His wife Mamerta decided she would stay in New York in case their daughter needed her, in case Jo's body was finally recovered. "It's devastating my husband hasn't been found yet," Naoemi says. "And now it could be the same thing with my father. Is this a bad dream...