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...When in doubt, any action film cranks down the action. Here, the bad guys swing their armaments in slo-mo, allowing the good guys to stab them in norm-mo. In one inspired sequence, the action stops as it traces the flight of an arrow, slicing it into separate panels on the screen - Zeno's Arrow Paradox, in a fanboy movie...
...detailed IRS data on this tax swing aren't out yet, but there's plenty of other evidence. For one thing, while income tax revenues are up sharply, Social Security and Medicare tax receipts have remained flat as a share of the economy. "That tells you it isn't the average wage earner whose taxes are going up," says Steuerle. Another sign is that capital-gains taxes, paid mostly by the wealthy, doubled from...
...Pittsburgh Pirates, yesterday. Sunday holds in store a meeting with Big East foe Notre Dame (3-6). The Fighting Irish knocked off then-seventh-ranked Nebraska in its last outing. Harvard squares off with Tampa on Monday at noon before briefly returning north. This weekend’s road swing is part of a stretch of 16 Florida games in 20 days, including another trip next weekend and a spring break sojourn. The Crimson, picked to finish first in the Ivy League in Baseball America’s preseason prognostication, will use the non-conference schedule to fine-tune...
...election that is over 600 days away. Do you know what can happen in that span of time? You could walk the Great Wall of China 2880 times. And all that walking is a heck of a lot healthier for you than robotically touting a presidential candidate in a swing state 20 months before ballots will be cast...
...more abuse, losing 4-3 to Purdue yesterday at the Murr Tennis Center.The defeat came in a match that featured so many heart-thumping rallies that by its conclusion, the fans felt as worn out as the players.The match started out auspiciously for Harvard but proceeded with such riveting swings of momentum that the final turn—in Purdue’s favor—felt almost anticlimactic.That swing came in the form of a missed backhand volley by No. 3 Junior Dan Nguyen with the score knotted at 10-10 in a third set tiebreaker. The volley...