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Mesilla, N.M., Voters Approve Increase in Gross Receipts Tax, Nix Name Change.
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By Steve Ramirez, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 13--MESILLA, N.M.--It's going to costs tourists and visitors more to shop, eat and drink in Mesilla.
In a special election conducted Tuesday voters approved an increase in the town's gross receipts tax, but overwhelmingly nixed the notion of formally changing the town's name to La Mesilla by a 3-to-1 margin.
Town officials will be able to impose a 1/8 of 1 percent municipal infrastructure gross receipts tax for general and infrastructure purposes after voters ...
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Tom Stoppard and his First Biographer.(Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard. Ira Nadel. Methuen. [pounds...ISBN 0-413-73050-6. Tom Stoppard is arguably the world's greatest...of such a serious misreading of Tom Stoppard's life and work, one can only...
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Talking chaos with Tom Stoppard
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; As you might expect, the message on Tom Stoppard's answering machine is, well, Stoppardian...unlock the enigmas inside the enigmas that are Tom Stoppard, the last person to ask is Stoppard. And for good reason. A major thread throughout...
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Mind over matter.(playwright Tom Stoppard)
Magazine article from: Newsweek
; ...an age of sound bites, Tom Stoppard, whose `Arcadia' arrives...turn on their brains Tom Stoppard is a seducer with a difference...moon landing, said, "Tom expects his audiences...university wit" to put down Stoppard for frivolity and shallowness...
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Life in Progress? A Canadian academic attempts a biography of British playwright Tom Stoppard.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...World & I. His review of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia appears...stepchildren to England, where Stoppard and his brother were given a private...adoption of a British identity as Tom Stoppard; he retained no significant attachment...
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Book reviews: Double Act: A life to Tom Stoppard: Stoppard plays Czech mate
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; Double Act: A life to Tom Stoppard By Ira Nadel Methuen 25 pounds SHORTLY...s about to make me rich," Tom Stoppard swiftly retorted. It did, despite...wit that runs throughout his work. Stoppard is the postwar artist who, more...
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The playwright's the thing; Flawed, stodgy biography can't quite ruin the fascinating story of Tom Stoppard's life.(SUNDAY REVIEW)(Review)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle
; Byline: David Kipen Tom Stoppard A Life By Ira Nadel PALGRAVE...After a few years there, Stoppard's mother meets and marries...him and enables young Tom to -- in the phrase Laurence...become English." Stoppard's youth even gives a...
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PROFILE: SIR TOM STOPPARD Enemy of the puerile The playwright's heartfelt attack on modern art last week is entirely in character
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...It would be tempting to see, in Tom Stoppard's denunciation of modern art...64 and a knight of the theatre, Stoppard knows tripe when he sees it. He...brave of him to say it," says Stoppard's friend, the best-selling...
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The Arts: The poet punts down the Styx Tom Stoppard's new play takes place in A.E. Housman's head. The playwright talks to Tobias Hill about poetry, Latin, love and the frustrating absence of a dark mistress
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Shaw and beyond. The painting of Tom Stoppard shows his face as a divided caricature...and particularly reminiscent of Stoppard's latest work. In The Invention...spent in lovelessness. I meet Tom Stoppard by the stage door. As we make...
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Profile: Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia" looks at the old Russian intelligentsia
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; 00-00-0000 Profile: Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia looks at the old Russian...been a nine-and-a-half hour trilogy by Tom Stoppard. Now over the last 40 years, Mr. Stoppard has written about a virtuosity of subjects ranging...
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All right an assessment of Tom Stoppard's plays.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...debuts have been as triumphant as Tom Stoppard's -- from anonymity to precocious...Guildenstern Are Dead (1967). Stoppard was still not quite 30 years old...seminal despair has underpinned Stoppard's seemingly effortless progress...
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