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Your report on what it cost the city of Phoenix, Ariz., to encourage Sumitomo Sitix of Japan to locate a silicon-wafer plant there was intellectually dishonest in describing what occurred [SPECIAL REPORT: CORPORATE WELFARE, Nov. 23]. You ignored the fact that this company brought 400 new high-tech jobs and an annual payroll of $14 million to a section of Phoenix that offered few employment opportunities. You failed to note the additional wealth created by yearly payments to vendors of $10 million, a $1 million payment to Phoenix for development and impact fees and $5 million in construction sales...
Just a few Thanksgivings from now, your wall-size, wafer-thin television will be dashing off an e-mail to your oven. With the unavoidable Detroit Lions game just going into overtime and the gang filling up on corn chips, the urgent message is: Keep the turkey from drying...
...20th century humanity's ravenous hunger for literal certainty. Transubstantiation is well and good, but the tantalizing notion that the red spatters on linen are Christ's actual blood, rather than wine as blood, and that the imprint on cloth was left by the resurrected body, not a Communion wafer, is intoxicating...
...portraits of the gang emerged vividly from tapes recorded through wafer-thin listening devices in prison visitors' badges and from the testimony of fellow gang members who took the witness stand in exchange for reduced prison sentences. The first portrait was of a narcotics empire that virtually controlled the Illinois state prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near...
City workers, for example, were out in force yesterday planting trees in the newly constructed granite pits on Mass. Ave. The tall, lanky specimens are leafless beings. Their wafer branches are stripped and gathered together in a forced upward cone, for transport it seems. Still, the trees are three. Pigeons on the grass alas, alas...