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...week only $6 billion of that was left. But California, with its $38 billion deficit, is in a class of its own. The intensely partisan state legislature in Sacramento last week failed for the 17th time in 25 years to pass a budget on time, with Republicans refusing to accept any tax increases and Democrats calling for a mix of increases and spending cuts. Davis is attempting to bridge the ideological divide in Sacramento, but he can't avoid sniping at some of the Republican cost-saving proposals, including raising the age for kindergarten eligibility. "I won't sign...
...latest credit-card offer from Discover all but screams out, "What a deal!" The terms: 0% interest for life on balance transfers. JPMorgan Chase Bank also recently offered customers a 0% deal in a limited test. But before you accept, read the fine print. That zero rate won't necessarily last forever. After six months, cardholders who still carry a transfer balance can retain the 0% rate only if they make two transactions per month. And new purchases carry a 13.99% rate. Also, monthly payments get applied to the transfer balance first, so interest will accrue quickly on current purchases...
...Since July 1, those fixed goalposts have shifted somewhat. The rallies have made the democrats more popular?and may also have modified their reputation in Beijing. None of the protests have been even remotely anti-China. That's walking?or marching?proof that Hong Kongers accept?perhaps even embrace?Chinese rule and the "one country, two systems" formula but see some ways their system could or should be improved. "People used to ask us, what is democracy for?" notes legislator Emily Lau. "We would say, it's for our freedoms. They would respond, we have all the freedoms we need...
...ARENA, June 16]. Reading her memoir as some sort of objective historical document is absurd. And if she won the presidency, it wouldn't be "attributable to her husband's genius," as Klein wrote. I understand it is easier to focus on Hillary's ever changing hairstyle than to accept her as an intellectual and motivating force in her own right. But Klein could at least have acknowledged that she has had the courage to move forward in public life after a harrowing media storm that would have pushed most people into hiding for the rest of their life. SARA...
...help comparing Martha Stewart's declarations of innocence to charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud [BUSINESS, June 16] with the reports that she might have been willing to accept a plea bargain if she could be guaranteed no jail time. What was she going to plead guilty to if not a crime? This is not just public relations. Stocks rise and fall on Stewart's public utterances. Would her plea of guilty in return for no jail time have been a lie? TONY ACCETTA New York City...