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...those wishing to see real political reform, the early signs are hardly encouraging. Hu, for example, has strengthened a secretive institution that Zhao had tried to abolish. From the national level all the way down to the smallest rural township, the Party maintains "politics and law committees" to coordinate law enforcement and instruct judges on court decisions. Only a month after taking charge of the Party in 2002, Hu inserted the head of China's national police force, Zhou Yongkang, as vice chairman of the Central Commission of Political Science and Law?the country's highest-level politics...
Last year the General Education committee of the curricular review recommended that the College abolish the Core Curriculum in favor of departmental distribution requirements...
...KERRY: He wants to retain the tax cuts for most Americans but abolish those for families making more than $200,000 a year. With part of that money, Kerry says, he would fund tax credits to support his other policies. For families, Kerry offers a $5,000 credit for child-care expenses. By ending a policy that allows companies to defer taxes on foreign income, Kerry says he would generate enough extra revenue--about $12 billion--to lower corporate tax rates from...
...Uncivil War. As the warnings of chaos grow more dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College. "A certain amount of shenanigans is standard. But it'd be really nice to know who the next President is by Thanksgiving," says Ted Jelen, chairman of the political-science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "I just don't see a gracious concession happening this...
VALLIERE: Stocks that have good dividends are going to be fine for the next couple of years. If Bush wins, he's going to try to make the 15% rate permanent. If Kerry wins, his efforts to abolish the 15% rate would run into a brick wall...