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...College Board has introduced a new policy that will allow students to choose which SAT Reasoning test scores they submit to colleges. The policy, Score Choice, will take effect in March, and so will be operational when current high school juniors apply to college next year...
Sunstein, an academic “superstar” and the most-cited American legal scholar, brings a keen intellect and a deep understanding of the behavioral sciences that will allow him to tailor regulation to human behavior, said Tribe, who employed Obama as a research assistant during his time at law school...
...carbon and gasoline taxes could raise another 1% or so of GDP. The public will also probably accept taxes on health care if they convincingly help save even more in private outlays on health insurance. A well-managed system of public financing of health care can do that and allow us to cut the horrendous sums paid to health-insurance companies. And in the end, though almost no U.S. politician will say it now, the U.S. will probably have to follow Europe down the path of the value-added tax - a kind of national sales...
...cuts: About $310 billion worth of tax cuts have been proposed. Many of these provisions are onetime measures that would allow companies to write off 2008 and 2009 losses and small businesses to write off expenditures up to $250,0000; a one-year tax credit would give companies $3,000 for each new hire and employee retained. Obama has also suggested a $500 rebate for individuals and $1,000 for couples; even those who don't make enough to pay taxes would receive some kind of rebate for the taxes that are automatically deducted for Medicare and Social Security. Republicans...
...especially frustrating for him to be prevented from running pictures or firsthand reporting from the war zones in northern Sri Lanka. The government claims that the 25-year-old war is finally approaching an end - an event any journalist would be eager to cover - but it has refused to allow reporters or photographers regular access to the war zones or to those areas where an estimated 230,000 people have been stranded amid the shelling...