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Rudolph Giuliani has adopted elements of Bush's plan as his own. Mitt Romney and John McCain also have plans that would reduce the tax code's favoritism toward employer-based care...
...Since my code is already screwed up, I’ll leave you instead with a story: In 2000, I traveled down to Philadelphia with my dad to see Harvard play Penn, its chief rival for league supremacy at the time. The Crimson was 4-1 in the Ivies entering the game, its league title hopes still alive. I remember two things from that afternoon. One, an electrifying Crimson receiver wearing number 19, catching passes and making plays all over the field. I later learned his name was Carl Morris and he turned out to be arguably the greatest wideout...
...openly embraces this assumption. Realizing that large, black men covered in tattoos and wearing “hip-hop” attire only serve to remind their fan-base of the negative things associated with that group (and thus the NBA), the organization implemented a business-attire dress code for all public appearances. On our own campus, the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) is similarly aware of image as one of the paramount obstacles for black men in America. Echoing the NBA dress code, the BMF tries to promote a positive image through their bi-weekly...
...regulations, they weaken many state regulations. After securing millions in settlements from corporations like Citibank and Sallie Mae, the federal lender, Cuomo was able to persuade dozens of universities and student lending firms—even some outside New York—to adhere to a “code of conduct.” This state-regulated code prohibited schools and lenders from sharing revenues, mandated disclosure of university-lender relationships, restricted how “preferred lenders” should be chosen, and banned gifts from lenders to university officials. Since the Education Department explicitly stipulated that their...
...Fearing that more controversy could lead to regulation, the industry is fighting back. Led by former Bank of England deputy governor Andrew Large, a group of 14 major U.K. hedge funds recently floated a code of good governance that promises greater disclosure to investors by offering more information on the risks funds may be exposed to. The code also calls on hedge funds to voluntarily disclose interests in companies held through indirect investments, to bolster strategies to weather big market swings, and to detail procedures followed in putting valuations on illiquid assets such as subprime debt, among other provisions...