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Afew weeks ago, I drove through Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky's Pennsylvania district, a sprawling suburb of single homes and upscale shopping centers. This is the wealthiest district in the Philadelphia area, a region that reeks of the upper tax bracket. The kind of place where you would expect to find a lot of Republicans...
...lofty claim, since the 20-to-29 age bracket has so far been conceptualized more as a marketing tool than an active social force; its members can't even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads...
...same rate as individuals rather than corporations. While big companies will see their income taxes rise just 1 percentage point, from 34% to 35%, prosperous small firms assessed at the individual rate will be hit with an increase from the current 31% to almost 40% in the top bracket. "Crazy as it sounds," says Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, "many small businesses will pay a higher effective tax rate than FORTUNE 500 corporations...
Harvard is placed in a tough bracket that includes third-seeded Cornell. Brown and Dartmouth round out Harvard's round-robin bracket of four...
Besides, the top two records from the two divisions advance to the semis, so theoretically the Crimson could survive a loss to Cornell and still advance. In the other bracket, Princeton and Pennsylvania are the favorites to advance, so all signs point towards a Harvard-Cornell-Princeton-Penn Final Four...