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After waiting more than 50 years, the world is finally beginning to come to grips with some of the many waves of disruption and destruction visited upon the victims, survivors and heirs of the Nazi Holocaust. The latest effort at restitution -- based on good intentions but relying only on good intentions -- comes out of a Washington conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools...
...challenge is, can you find the 12 or 14 books that you need [at another store] while I know you can get those here," Murphy says. "We take it upon ourselves to carry every book requested, regardless of the quantity." Moreover, textbook purchases at the Coop are not taxed, while those at Harvard Book Store...
...local area has benefited financially as a result of the support we were given by Monroe County, N.Y. It is true that the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency issued $21 million in bonds to support the building of a new plant. However, the company repaid this in full upon the passing of title. It is also true that the company accepted $2 million in tax abatements. These have since ceased. Instead of losing revenue, as you implied, Monroe County has gained additional income. Even with the abatements, our property and school taxes over a 10-year period will...
...about the expense and time; some of the smaller banks are threatening to throw out the commission's accountants. What's more, under pressure from the federal government, the banks grudgingly waived their hallowed secrecy rules for those wartime accounts. But as the sifting proceeds, the accountants are hitting upon records of Jewish clients who are still alive and in no mood to have their nest eggs probed. Slowing down the inquiry is the investigators' insistence on checking the identity of thousands of Jewish names in the banks' records against the central archives of Yad Vashem in Israel, where more...
Having died of shock upon realizing that he holds a winning lottery ticket, poor Ned can't be awakened. But it occurs to scheming Jackie O'Shea (Ian Bannen) and his nervous pal Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) that he can be impersonated--at least long enough to fool the Dublin official who comes to Tully More (pop. 51) to verify Ned's claim. Eventually the whole village is in on the scam. To Jones' credit, the locals are not afflicted by the Irish curse--terminal whimsy--and his rendering of their sly cupidity as they grasp at good fortune...