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After eight successful preliminaries held Friday through Sunday, the Harvard team entered the elimination bracket along with the top 32 teams, winning in every round except the last against Georgetown...
...victory against Penn would have placed the Crimson on top of its bracket, thereby avoiding Princeton in the semifinals...
...tone and content, this letter is totally consistent with the now famous one that Clinton wrote to Colonel Holmes three months later. Together, the two letters bracket the period when Rosenbaum and others suggest Clinton was confident that he had successfully dodged the draft...
...terms of its effect on different income groups, the present system is highly regressive. If you're making $45,000, you are, in many cases, in a 43% marginal tax bracket. Because you have 15.3% if you attribute the whole Social Security tax to the employee, and you have your 28% ((income tax)). And it's a very regressive tax and admits of no deductions...
...plans. But while shifting burdens from the middle class to the rich might make the tax system fairer, it would do little to stimulate the economy. Clinton would reduce the 15% and 28% rates to 13.5% and 26.5% and pay for the cuts by raising the top bracket from 31% to 38.5%. So the extra $350 a year -- or 97 cents a day -- that the plan gave the average family would simply come from the rich without creating new spending power. "This will not do anything in the long term to increase people's standard of living," says Nariman Behravesh...