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Kim Deal leaves the Pixies, stays busy touring with the Breeders
It’s happened again: Kim Deal has left the Pixies, the influential rock band she co-founded with Frank "Black Francis" Black, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer Dave Lovering in 1986. Deal is also the co-founder, with her twin sister Kelley, of the...
Tags: Travel, Entertainment, Tourism and Leisure, Culture, Ceremonies
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Getting 'In Bed with Ulysses' to celebrate Bloomsday June 16
James Joyce fans know that June 16 is Bloomsday, the single day in which all of his seminal novel "Ulysses" takes place. But as the video above reveals in its first seconds, not everyone is a James Joyce fan. It's the trailer for the documentary "Get in...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, NoHo, Authors, Kathleen Chalfant
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Europe rethinks its pursuit of austerity
LONDON — After years of unrelenting austerity, Europe seems to have turned a corner on its debt crisis — right into a dead-end street. Since the turmoil erupted in 2009, countries from Ireland to Greece have focused almost exclusively on...
Tags: European Central Bank, Germany, Pension and Welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, European Union
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Apple's tax tricks give rise to lousy reform ideas
Apple Inc.'s success at avoiding billions of dollars in U.S. taxes through some (apparently) legal maneuvers has tax pundits pointing their guns at the corporate tax system. The case has revived numerous hoary cures for the supposed evil of corporate...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Shareholders, Inventories
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Ireland is not a tax haven for Apple, ambassador says
WASHINGTON -- Ireland's ambassador to the U.S. declared Friday that his nation was not a tax haven for Apple Inc., formally disputing a congressional report that said company executives had negotiated a special low rate to shelter much of the firm's...
Tags: Swiss Confederation, Tim Cook, John McCain, Carl Levin, Fuel-efficient Vehicles
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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Entertainment, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Journalism, Alzheimer's Disease
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Letters: Apple's taxes
Re "Apple execs grilled over tax strategy," Business, May 22 Unbelievable, stunning, incredible that members of Congress have the audacity to bring the chief executive of one of the most successful companies this country has ever seen to grill him on...
Tags: Tim Cook, Apple Inc., Organized Crime
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Colum McCann on 'journeys by heroes'
National Book Award winner Colum McCann's ninth book, "TransAtlantic," is a fictionalized exploration of three historic journeys between North America and Ireland. He talked about his new novel, which hits bookstores on June 4, by phone from his...
Tags: Dublin (Ireland), Tony Blair, Literature, Slavery, Arts and Culture
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Pay your taxes, Europe warns multinationals
LONDON — European leaders fired a warning shot in the battle against multinational companies that exploit loopholes or set up complicated schemes to minimize their tax bills, calling for collective action to thwart such practices. Britain,...
Tags: Germany, Business, G8, David Cameron, Apple Inc.
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Lawmakers grill Apple execs over tax strategy
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook was supposed to face a hostile Capitol Hill crowd but instead he wielded the company's popularity like a shield to deflect some of the most aggressive questioning over the company's...
Tags: Rand Paul, John McCain, Companies and Corporations, Claire McCaskill, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Apple skirts U.S. taxes, panel finds
WASHINGTON — Apple Inc., one of the most successful and valuable companies on the planet, will be tested Tuesday when Chief Executive Tim Cook testifies about the company's controversial tax practices before a hostile Senate subcommittee. Should...
Tags: Earnings, John McCain, Companies and Corporations, Apple Inc., Taxation
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Report: Apple avoided billions in U.S. taxes on foreign income
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details WASHINGTON -- Apple Inc. has used an elaborate web of offshore subsidiaries to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes on $44 billion in foreign income over the past four years,...
Tags: Earnings, Companies and Corporations, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple Inc., White House
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