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This J-term, DaSilva plans to participate in the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) Institute for Advanced Theater Training, which will be giving undergraduates the opportunity to experience three weeks of the instruction it offers to graduate students throughout the year...
Hayward’s vice-presidential candidate, Zhang, has also been heavily involved in student groups. Currently, he is co-vice president of the Chinese Students Association and a director in the Veritas Financial Group. A Cabot resident, he has also been involved in organizations such as the Asian American Association and the Institute of Politics...
...while Moore may be accustomed to shoppers seeking skimpy garb for the holiday, Lucy S. Bennett, who works at American Apparel, encountered a group of costume-seekers with an unusual quest...
...remembered for the massive tax cuts passed during his first year in office. But since deficits do matter - and since Reagan's so-called supply-side cuts blasted an enormous hole in the budget - the President had to come back in 1982 with the largest peacetime tax increase in American history: the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which raised $37.5 billion, or 1% of gross domestic product (GDP), per year. He also signed a $3.3 billion gasoline-tax increase. The next year, he signed another whopping tax hike, designed to save Social Security...
...more, and the latest generic matchups by Rasmussen polls show Republicans leading Democrats 42% to 38%. Still, Democrats control the House by a margin of 40 seats, so taking back the House would require a pretty major wave of discontent over the next year. And while polls show that Americans are first and foremost concerned with their jobs, making the case on obscure policy fronts - such as the commercial real estate market, where lending has lagged behind the residential market - could be tough, says Jim Thurber, head of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "To make those...