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...Taxachusetts.” A libertarian advocacy group has placed a ballot question in front of voters which would repeal the state income tax. The measure, sponsored by the Committee for Small Government, would reduce the current state income tax rate of 5.3% to 2.65% beginning on January 1, 2009, and eliminate it completely the following year. Taxpayers would save an average of $3,600 a year, at a cost of roughly $12.5 billion, or 40 percent, of the state budget. While government officials argue that the initiative would decimate government projects ranging from Massachusetts?...
...something happens in our final year. As Harvard begins to clamp their umbilical cords, seniors suddenly find themselves to be small fish in a big tumultuous ocean. Of course they can’t cure cancer just by having worked in a Med School lab for a year! Of course they can’t win the Pulitzer for reporting on war crimes in Chechnya just because they were on The Crimson! As this dreadful cynicism creeps in, Harvard students begin to abandon their dreams of helping New Orleans or children in Ghana; all they really hope...
...road certainly did not begin easily. In the first round of qualifying singles, Ko faced Duke’s Tara Iyer, ranked No. 60 in the nation...
...utilizes material from the real report. The novel is a stream-of-consciousness first-person account of an anonymous writer in an unnamed Latin American country, commissioned to edit 1,100 pages of testimonies from survivors of massacres of Indian villages.“Senselessness” begins with the words spoken by one survivor: “I am not complete in the mind.” By its end, the same can be said about the narrator, a paranoid alcoholic who loves sex and despises the Catholic Church, a curiously obsessive, self-absorbed man whose overactive mind...
...hard-won, and it may not last. California, and in particular San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, have been fighting for gay marriage since 2004, when Newsom ordered the county clerk to begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples. Martin and Lyon were the first married then, as well, but their marriage was invalidated along with 3,954 others when the state Supreme Court ruled that Newsom had overstepped his authority in ordering the licenses issued. Now, a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage comes up for a vote in November. Women are walking down the aisle together...