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Massachusetts’s highest court heard The Crimson’s appeal yesterday in its two-year lawsuit to force Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to release more detailed crime reports...
...Crimson loses the appeal, its only recourse will be through the legislature. Under that circumstance, “if newspapers like The Crimson want these records, they’ll have to get the legislature to change the public records act,” said Leonard M. Singer, a lawyer who wrote an amicus brief siding with The Crimson...
...says Stanford business school professor William Barnett. "This sounds like a very smart identity play," he says. "In these kinds of businesses, we see not just an appeal to quality but an appeal to identity and authenticity." Yes, the books at Cody's are probably all available on Amazon, and yes, many of them are also sold, at a discount, by the big chain store around the corner. But just as a small wine bar can thrive by pouring drinks available more cheaply at a liquor store or sports bar, so can a bookstore trade on its cachet of cool...
...from a broader economic perspective, dropping mortgage-interest deductions has a certain appeal. For starters, it's only one part of a program that would reform the tax code without changing the burden on the average American. It would raise some taxes only as much as it cuts others. The real target is the alternative minimum tax (AMT), designed years ago to prevent millionaires from avoiding tax, but now increasingly encroaching upon the middle class. Next year the AMT will raise the burden of 21 million taxpayers earning as little as $75,000. But to replace the $1.2 trillion that...
Bush plans to make post-Thanksgiving trips to the Southwest to talk up border security. His aides hope to set the stage for legislation that would both crack down on illegal entry, which appeals to conservatives, and make it easier for undocumented people to become guest workers, which tends to appeal to Hispanic voters. G.O.P. House members who fear that Bush's guest-worker plan could tear the party apart say Administration officials have recently assured them that the White House would support a separate border-security bill first rather than insist on a linked package. Doing so could make...