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There are five singles brackets and three doubles brackets in the Harvard Invitational. Each team is allowed to enter up to two players (or teams) in each bracket, though no more than eight players can compete in each flight. Players can overlap, playing both singles and doubles, if their coaches are so inclined to give them double-duty...
Harvard was actually guaranteed a win in flight three, as both Crimson representatives in the bracket advanced to the final match. Ajilore triumphed over teammate Jennie Timoney...
Unlike Gore, Bush has no proposals that specifically target uninsured children, preferring to classify them instead under the general bracket of the uninsured. This is particularly troubling, given recent news that states neglected to spend nearly half of the 4.2 billion dollars given to them by Congress in 1997 as part of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Texas and California were responsible for half of that unspent money. Bush's state--which is home to the second highest percentage of uninsured children--reported this year that it could not spend $445 million of its allocated money, largely...
...couple of middle-class goodies--doubling the existing $500-per-child tax credit and reducing the marriage penalty--but since the thrust of his plan is an across-the-board cut, the wealthy folks who pay the bulk of the taxes would enjoy the greatest gains (the top tax bracket would drop from 39.6% to 33%). Bush would also repeal the estate tax, which in addition to providing needed relief to family farmers and small-business owners would deliver a windfall to the very rich. Result: a small number of affluent people would get almost half of the benefit from...
...couple of middle-class goodies--doubling the existing $500-per-child tax credit and reducing the marriage penalty--but since the thrust of his plan is an across-the-board cut, the wealthy folks who pay the bulk of the taxes would enjoy the greatest gains (the top tax bracket would drop from 39.6% to 33%). Bush would also repeal the estate tax, which in addition to providing needed relief to family farmers and small-business owners would deliver a windfall to the very rich. Result: a small number of affluent people would get almost half of the benefit from...