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Unsurprisingly absent from Forbes statements have been mentions of the many intricacies of the tax code that the flat tax might erase. For example, would he do away with all the deductions for business travel and the highly-touted investment tax credit? Or just the Earned Income Tax Credit that gives people below the poverty line extra incentive to work? Forbes and his ilk find such complexities distasteful, but they exist for very good reasons...
According to Professor Russell, he reported the incident to the Harvard Police who subsequently buried it. We are forced to agree with this assessment due to the fact that the assault was conspicuously absent from the safety warning and that no independent mention has come to light in the five weeks since it occurred. Russell also mentioned that he has not noticed any additional security added to the area in the wake of his report. In addition to the assault on Russell, two weeks ago another man was assaulted on the Weeks Bridge, according to the Harvard Police blotter, Clearly...
...Notably absent from this year's program are Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie '91, both of whom have starred in past shows...
...could it have been otherwise when a black man stood accused of cutting the throats of two white people in a city that exploded just 3 1/2 years ago after four white cops who beat Rodney King were set free by a jury from which blacks were conspicuously absent? Few would disagree with Thelma Golden, curator of a controversial 1994 exhibition on black males in contemporary culture, that "if Nicole had been black, this case would have been a cover on Jet magazine [the black newsweekly] and not much more...
When Palestinian self-rule expands to embrace most of the West Bank, its success or failure--absent extremist spasms--will rest on two ingredients: the cooperation of Israel and the presence of a competent, politically open Palestinian administration. On both counts, a chastening lesson comes from the Gaza Strip, where self-rule began with the establishment of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in May 1994. That dust-blown, dirt-poor piece of land, home to nearly a million Palestinians, is as sad a place now as it was then--and Israelis and Palestinians share the blame for its mood...