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...tournament is set up to be a single-elimination event. However, there is a consolation bracket for all those who lose in the first two days of competition. Freshman George Turner has taken advantage of the backdraw. Dropping his first match to Yale's Andrew Rosenfeld, 6-2, 6-2, Turner has won four consecutive matches and eight straight sets. He continues his quest toward victory tomorrow in the final day of tournament action...
...everyday Americans, practices like this are just what is wrong with our country. The American creed, if it is anything, is a commitment to equal opportunity. People in our country, we like to think, should be judged by their merit, not by the tax-bracket of their parents. Yet this is how the White House internship program operates, by default if not by intent, in running an "equal opportunity" program with the implicit understanding that only the economically privileged need apply...
...according to Waite and Nielsen. Proponents of at-home mothering insist, however, that staying home is more affordable than it may appear, since a second wage earner's job is accompanied by costs such as child care, transportation, restaurant meals, work clothes, cleaning bills and a higher income- tax bracket. Sheila Grillo, 34, a former sales rep who stays home with her three children in Bowie, Md., learned to use coupons, buy on sale and scale back. "Over the years my whole mind-set changed about material things," she says...
Putting light-heartedness aside, however, HYPE does have a serious mission. Voters in the 18-24 age bracket are historically the least participatory segment of the voter population and therefore the least likely to have their concerns taken up in the political arena. Whether or not our next president addresses issues on the youth agenda will depend to a large extent on whether the youth vote is mobilized next month. And, with polls consistently showing the candidates in a statistical dead heat, your vote matters in this election more than ever...
...true depends on whether or not you include Bush's plan for repeal of the estate tax in the amount going to the wealthiest 1%. The Bush camp argues that the tax shouldn't be included, because not all estate-tax relief would go to the highest income bracket. But if even just half of it did, Gore's claim would be right...