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...really want to hurt a guy’s feelings, all you have to do is dance at him, really, really hard. So maybe dancing can be revenge. But revenge itself is a timeworn plot for a story with a female protagonist (e.g. “Kill Bill??). Similarly, Britney and her music videos are like a comfortable old sock. They feature familiar imagery: the car chase? Any Mitsubishi ad. A man’s chest glistening in a shower? Gillette. Hotel room? Ikea. But that’s why we keep on lovin’ Brit...
Economics professor Jeffrey A. Miron is one of the strongest opponents of the bill??an article of his entitled “Bankruptcy, not bailout, is the right answer,” was posted on CNN.com Monday—and his free-market advocacy has attracted national attention...
...Senator Chris Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank ’62 are the chairs of the finance committees in their respective legislative chambers. They, along with President Bush’s economic team, have the know-how and can-do attitudes to engineer a substantive bailout bill??without McCain’s help. Perhaps the esteemed senator from Arizona should let the experts do their jobs...
...proposed University endowment tax, which now has been defeated, would have taxed Massachusetts universities with endowments exceeding $1 billion 2.5 percent of their endowments annually. The motivation behind this bill??presumably to plug state budget holes—did not provide a valid reason for penalizing a few universities for their financial success. Large universities should not be taxed like larger corporations in part because of their beneficial effects on the community. Schools like Harvard and Boston University not only produce citizens that are educated to help their communities, but are also some of the top employers...
Casey added that Harvard is not as interested in the $500 million designated for capital projects—95 percent of which is already locked down in the House bill??but on the $250 million in research grants for which the University’s researchers could be eligible. The remaining $250 million is for tax-breaks geared toward industry...