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...exactly. Tax receipts have actually been growing much faster than the overall economy, which means the tax burden has gone up. Congress, prodded by the President, cut tax rates in 2001 and 2003. Yet you are paying more in taxes. Or at least somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks, Rich People! | 3/9/2007 | See Source »

...have called us immediately after a piggybacking incident,” he says in an e-mail.Administrators said that they were concerned that students were not paying attention to whom they let into their houses.Gregg A. Peeples, the Winthrop House Allston Burr resident dean, says that “the burden falls on individual students.”“I don’t think students would appreciate us running around and negatively reinforcing,” he says. “We need to positively encourage people.”He says that several Winthrop students had taken...

Author: By Noah S. Bloom, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creeping Around Campus | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Though detractors of the ideas contained in the report state that students’ tendencies to separate academics from extracurriculars is “a boon not a burden,” others believe that mixing the two encourages a unique and effective way to learn...

Author: By Eliza L. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doing it with Your Hands | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...With 300 concentrators, the economics department’s advising resources are already spread thin, and reviewing syllabi from classes taught elsewhere would be an added burden, Undergraduate Program Administrator Emily R. Neill said...

Author: By Carolyn F. Gaebler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Secondary Fields Befuddle Students | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...surge” in Iraq, the concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public—the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion as the enemies he so steadfastly opposes—that our problems should be solved...

Author: By Justin S. Becker and Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Sacrifice, Not Martyrdom | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

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