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As it stands, Duehay warned, the tax rate will increase $30 to $50, a hike that translates into $500 to $900 more for the average taxpayer in the city. And for their extra money, taxpayers will be buying sharply reduced services, not only in the schools but across the city...
Though a professed atheist, Shaw was possessed by an evangelical passion. He was convinced that if spiritual power could be harnessed to material power, man would be transformed into a higher order of being. That is at the core of Major Barbara, which is being given a top-notch revival...
"I don't think the Pound Seizure Law will be repealed," Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of Harvard's Animal Resource Center (ARC) says, "but in politics anything is possible. It is an emotionally charged issue, and I know the people in the State House would love to see it go...
Giscard's approach is a legacy of De Gaulle's efforts to devise an independent foreign policy that would give France a leading role to play on the world's diplomatic stage. As the proud fathers of détente-the concept, they say, was born during...
AT ITS CORE, Carter's neglect of the problems of America's cities translates into an unwillingness to fight poverty or to use the presidency as a force to better the position of poor people and minority groups in American society. The current crisis of America's cities highlights a...