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Harvard (15-0 overall, 13-0 ECAC) has a six-point lead over St. Lawrence (16-1, 11-1) in the standings, with Cornell, RPI, Vermont and Clarkson rounding out the top half of the bracket. The Crimson also holds the first four spots on the scoring list and boasts the league's top two goaltenders in freshmen Allain Roy (1.80 goals-against-average) and Chuckie Hughes (1.83 g.a.a...
...that article, Frazier cited a sourcecorrectly, but failed to bracket an extractionfrom the text in quotation marks. While Scatenacalled this "clearly wrong," Ramona said that thiserror was "some-what trivial...
First, raise my taxes. Under the current tax law, the top federal income- tax bracket is 28%, but above $43,150 (or $71,900 for joint returns) it effectively rises to 33% for a while and then drops back to 28%. Don't misunderstand. I love paying just 28%. (And at 28%, I pay a heck of a lot more than I ever did when the top rate was higher, because, far from trying anything stupid to shelter my income from taxes, I'm quite happy to send the Government its share.) But keeping the top rate at 33% instead...
Where possible, you don't tax the things you want to encourage, like investment and work, which is why we should never let the top tax bracket creep back up past 33% (it was 70% as recently as 1981). But you do tax the things you'd like to discourage, like inefficient energy consumption (and its attendant pollution), reliance on imported oil (which threatens national security and worsens the trade deficit) and tobacco (widely recognized as the nation's leading cause of preventable death...
After losing to Cornell in the first round and dropping to the losers' bracket last Friday, the Crimson rallied to grab an exciting five-set victory against Columbia...