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...cutting operating expenses 10%, freezing wages and halting new hires. The plan calls for the creation of a new independent statistical service, which should make it harder for officials to manipulate data. It also includes an improved tax-collection system designed to catch tax cheats, who have created an underground economy worth possibly as much as 25% of the country's output. The method proposed: incentives that encourage Greeks, who for decades have paid for services in cash, to ask for receipts, to pressure service providers to report the income. "That's a huge cultural change," reports an American diplomat...
Dunster also has a library with secret rooms behind bookcases, a big TV room, a cardio room and a weight room (highly acclaimed by FlyBy!), multiple squash courts, a nice kitchen, and music practice rooms. Unlike some Houses such as Winthrop and Cabot, the underground tunnels connect all the entryways, meaning that you never have to go outside when Cambridge weather acts up (which, as you must know by now, it likes to do often). For the more temperate days in the fall and spring, the beautiful, open courtyard facing the river is a popular spot to work or relax...
Another couple felt that adopting heterosexual titles would only serve to exacerbate tensions between the gay community and critics of same-sex marriage. "We're not aping the hets," said Thomas Frank Toth, a decorated 86-year-old World War II veteran who recounted stories of being raided at underground gay clubs in the '60s. Toth said he's looking to gay writers to come up with a new vocabulary for homosexual marriage, because while the institution - and its foundation of love - might be shared, he believes this new, hard-won embrace of it will remain fundamentally different...
Christian E. Free ’10, who lives in H entryway, said he did not know that the basement had been opened, but said that he was “very glad” now that he will have underground access to the laundry room...
Unlike in other River Houses, Winthrop residents cannot traverse their House underground, as many of the entryways are not connected by accessible basements...