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...told the New York Times that when he was President he had a "firm policy" not to play favorites in a primary. Ronald Reagan was so leery of showing preferences that he sometimes resisted posing for pictures with anyone who was up against another Republican. And George H.W. Bush broke the rule so rarely that his former political director Ron Kaufman could recall only two instances, both of which occurred when the elder Bush was Vice President. Senior Democrats are avoiding primary endorsements in this election cycle for a practical reason: they tried it in three House races two years...
...correct answer: D. "Paying for college is a retirement problem as much as it is a funding problem: How do you pay for school and still have enough left over to retire?" says Kalman Chany, author of Paying for College Without Going Broke. That's why your first dollars need to go into your 401(k), where the money goes in free of income tax and grows tax deferred. Nine times out of 10, you will get matching dollars from your employer. And 401(k) savings are not counted when colleges determine whether your child is eligible for financial...
...Here, kitty, kitty!" didn't melt my heart; it broke it. Sure, the kitten named cc is a cutie, but there are millions of cuties in animal shelters begging for love. It was sensible of you to note that "given that more than 5 million unwanted cats are destroyed each year, it's hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars to clone a new one. Why not just adopt?" Who needs cc when there are so many originals out there and not enough homes for them all? EILEEN K. BLAU Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
...Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in Sept. 2000; in Ramallah. DIED. Spyros Kyprianou, 69, former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony...
...buying up more property in Allston in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, land across the river had been considered a place where overflow dorms and relocated museums could ease the space crunch on the Cambridge campus. These initial dealings were conducted in secret and when the news broke, there was an uproar in the community...