- 2 VAT versions.
THE Senate kept the VAT bill at 10 percent, refusing to match the Lower Houses 12, which means that those faithfully paying the present VAT will not be penalized with an added two percent to make up for the deficit ......
- Atonality and beyond.
Sudip Bose in his review of The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross contends that the history of Western music is a progression from tonality to atonality. There is no historical evidence for this. Western music was at its most ......
- McCaskill: Get ready for digital TV.
Residents with conventional television--not Charter cable or AT&T U-Verse--may be surprised to learn that they could be left with no programs to watch one year from now, unless they take action. On Feb. 17, 2009, all analog televisions that are ......
- Katrina relief official quits after pastors fault fiscal oversight.
The executive director of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund has resigned her post after prominent members of the fund's religious advisory committee quit and harshly criticized the manner in which the fund made grants to houses of worship. Fund cochairs Don ......
- A moment of grace for a former principal.
IT WAS JUST one moment at General Synod 2004, just a sentence in the Anglican Journal's thousands of words covering the nine-day governing convention. But for Canon Norman Pilcher, it was a thunderclap. The Journal's story referred to a presentation ......
- Uncas: First of the Mohegans.
Uncas: First of the Mohegans, by Michael Leroy Oberg. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 2003. ix, 268 pp. $27.50 US (cloth). The mention of the name "Uncas" generally conjures up the fictional character from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last ......
- Bergsonian philosophy and Thomism.
9780268021528 Bergsonian philosophy and Thomism. Maritain, Jacques. Trans. by Mabelle L. Andison. U. of Notre Dame Press 2007 383 pages $40.00 Hardcover The collected works of Jacques Maritain; v.1 B2430 ......
- Health.
The tragic death of a corps dancer in Boston Ballet has had considerable repercussions beyond the realm of dance. And although we still do not have the entire picture, a few more facts and some distance in terms of time ......
- Sweatshop labor issues unchanged, activists say.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard In the five years since the sweatshop labor issue caused a temporary rift between the University of Oregon and it biggest donor, Nike executive Phil Knight, little has changed at garment and shoe factories ......
- Administration resents "swift" kick: after the press reported that a secret operation following the money trails to terrorists was including financial dealings of innocent citizens, the neo-conservatives lashed back.
On June 23, Vice President Dick Cheney harshly criticized the nation's news media for disclosing information about the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift. According to the disclosure appearing in the New York Times for June 24: "The ......
- "Traditional use" and regulatory change in the arena of Natural Health Products.
Over the last three years, the federal government has been pressured to loosen advertising restrictions on Natural Health Products (NHPs). Such pressure has originated both externally (consumer petitions and the industry lobby) and internally (private member's bills). Government responded to ......
- The problem with extra-judicial killing.
NEWS ITEM: "NATO'S Civilian Death Toll Growing: A day after President Hamid Karzai harshly criticized military operations in his country, the NATO-led force yesterday confirmed more civilians had been killed, this time in Pakistan." National Post, June 25, 2007 NEWS ......
- The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa.
The Idea of Freedom in Asia and Africa, edited by Robert H. Taylor. The Making of Modern Freedom series. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003. xviii, 329 pp. $60.00 US (cloth). Can a single volume do justice to the breadth of ......
- Noneconomic objectives in the history of economic thought.
I What is a Noneconomic Objective? EXAMPLES OF THE NONECONOMIC OBJECTIVES OF GOVERNMENT WERE RIFE in mercantilist times, and can also be found in classical writings, starting with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The concept of a noneconomic objective, however, ......
- UJC wraps up VIII Congress in Havana.
Cuba's Union de Jovenes Comunistas (Union of Communist Youth, or UJC) has finally held its VIII Congress in Havana after nearly seven years. Some 1,200 delegates and 300 guests attended the Dec. 2-5 event, whose official slogan was "Un mundo ......