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...instead of packing it in, the Crimson closed out the regular season with three straight shutouts. Nevertheless, Harvard still needed all the other bubble teams to falter in their conference tournaments to make the NCAA bracket. One by one, they...
...smiles, flawless features, alluring accents—and their athletic bodies didn’t hurt, either. Cornish and Tselentis were the champions of the first-ever Crimson Chaos competition, a website set up to rank senior boys at Harvard by their physical appearance. Starting in a single-elimination bracket of 64 attractive seniors, Cornish and Tselentis, both chosen for FM’s fifteen hottest freshmen four years ago, advanced all the way to a face-off in the final round, where Cornish eked out a victory. Yet there were no hard feelings among the two as they worked...
This is the traditional Republican supply-side aspect of Dubya-nomics: you help the poor by helping the rich. In particular, Bush justifies cuts in top-bracket tax rates by noting that they will benefit the small-business owner. That they will. But a lot of top-bracket taxpayers are not small-business owners. So even under the dubious premise that small-business owners are delicate flowers that must be fertilized with extra-rich tax goodies, a general tax cut for the rich is a weird way to go about...
...have reached a rare parity with those of taxable Treasury bonds. In both cases you can get about 4% on a 10-year issue. A T-bond would have to yield 5.7% to generate the same after-tax income as a 4% muni for anyone in the 30% tax bracket...
...Princeton defenders hung back and the gambles allowed the Tigers to tack on extra tallies, blowing the game open and sending Harvard to the consolation bracket...