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...Sharing the Iraq Burden...
...responsibility of supporting HoCos has fallen traditionally on the Committee Fund, but this year the Grants Fund also shares that burden...
...interview last night. He said the measures would send “a strong message that our taxpayers are getting hit across the city,” and that “it’s just not acceptable” for Harvard and MIT to shirk their tax burden...
That puts the burden squarely on the Palestinians to turn themselves into a model partner before the U.S. or Israel will stretch out a hand. Yet the Palestinians need help--diplomatic encouragement, money, a confidence-building concession or two--to take a new direction. Opportunities for peace have been squandered time and again by refusals to take risks. If anything good is to come from Arafat's death, it will require everyone involved to cut through that knot. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Matthew Cooper/ Washington; J.F.O. McAllister with Blair; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Matt Rees, Jamil Hamad and Aharon...
...with free-market problems. What happens if individuals don't invest wisely? Or if the stock market tanks after they retire? Some economists are worried that the plan is especially risky for the two-thirds of seniors who rely on Social Security for their main source of income. "The burden of [cutting benefits] is going to fall on lower- and middle-income households," says Mark Zandi of Economy.com Yet supporters say the dangers could be easily mitigated by allowing investments only in broad stock and bond indexes, which are relatively safe, and by limiting the size of personal savings accounts...