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Speaking of the NCAA tournament, at this time of year college basketball fans dabble in “Bracketology,” trying to predict how their massive 65-team bracket will take shape in March...
Harvard would need to climb even higher if it wanted to acquire insurance against underdogs in other leagues stealing conference championships and the automatic bids that go along with them. The Crimson was one of those “bracket-breakers” last season, when it upset Cornell to win the ECAC title and bumped Alaska-Fairbanks from the tournament field...
...part to the President’s increase of the child tax credit. In other words, the Bush proposal would ensure that nearly 4 million underprivileged Americans no longer have to pay any income taxes. Percentage-wise, those in the “0-$30,000” income bracket would get, on average, a 17 percent tax reduction, while those in the “$200,000-plus” bracket would get a 11.2 percent reduction...
...every speech from now until spring, were already passed by Congress once (with bipartisan support, no less); why not start enjoying them now? The increases in child-care credits and marriage-penalty relief (not to mention, and Bush will, the immediate dropping of the 15 percent tax bracket to 10 percent) offer something for every hard-working middle-class family of swing voters. And the elimination of the "double" tax on dividends, while hardly the panacea the White House likes to crack it up to be, is economically benign and aesthetically satisfying, at the very least...
...Crimson’s loss to the Bantams relegated it to the Plate bracket. There, it shut out both Princeton’s second five and a New York-based quintet to finish fifth...