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...moral person or an animal who's learned a sophisticated trick? "People fake a lot of human interactions," he says, "but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well." Unlike CSI, Dexter is informed by a philosophical question: whether humanity is more than the sum of one's outward actions...
...often war is condensed into meaningless Arabic numerals. It becomes place names and dates. It becomes a simple sum game of territory exchanged and penalties levied. The different wars (spoken aloud like different varieties of vegetables) acquire snappy appellations—The War on Terror, Desert Storm, The Great War, World War II—and little kids play them out in their sandboxes. War becomes a commodity sold as Hollywood movies and Toys “R” Us action figures. The cost of it, the real human cost of it all, is often forgotten.A.L. Kennedy?...
...according to consulting firm KPMG, and they poured around $917 million into its tax system in 2006 alone. The central government lets foreigners negotiate how much tax they pay directly with whichever of the country's 26 cantons they move to; an annual lump sum is calculated, based on five times the rental value of the expat's Swiss home. Rates average around 30%, but vary among cantons - in Geneva, taxes are on the higher side, while in less crowded cantons like Zug (an increasingly popular spot for foreign hedge-fund managers) they can be less than 15%. For good...
...appeal and her machine are not easily undone by big-name endorsements or the continued strong African-American support of Obama. They are also a reminder that the exit polls (which suggested she might lose the two Northeast states) cannot be trusted, just in case we'd forgotten. In sum, white and Latino women and older people still really like Hillary, and they like to vote...
...This December, 125 members of the Class of 2010 registered as Government concentrators, a drop from 164 concentrators in the Class of 2009 and dramatically lower than the 236 concentrators in the Class of 2008. In sum, the College’s political scientists have seen a 48 percent decrease in the students who fill their lecture halls and seminar rooms over the last three years, leaving department administrators searching for answers...