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...sexile: It's perhaps the most sacred of all college maxims, the unspoken code of conduct that keeps lusty teenagers and cramped dorm rooms at peace...
...Afghans - especially ethnic Pashtuns like Zazi who follow a strict code of conduct - the arrests have brought shame not just to his family but to the entire community. "The dishonor of getting accused is just as bad in our culture as being guilty," says Ahad Shahbaz, who runs English-language-teaching programs in Boulder. "Even if he is honest, now he has dishonored his family...
...During the campaign, Westerwelle pledged to cut taxes and simplify Germany's tax code - regarded as one of the most convoluted in Europe. The FDP leader says the goal is simple: more money in the pockets of workers. Lower taxes, the party says, will increase tax revenues by providing more incentive to work and boosting growth. Pushed by the CDU's sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Merkel has already promised to cut taxes, but she cleverly avoided mentioning any date. The issue is likely to define the new government - either because Merkel and company carry out reforms...
...other interesting bit about the mortgage-interest deduction is that policymakers never intended it to help promote homeownership - something that many people assume to be the case and use to help frame their thinking about the appropriateness of using the tax code to boost home-buying. Rather, the deduction is an artifact of the 1894 federal income-tax code, under which all interest was deductible, since pretty much all interest was a business expense. There weren't really loans to buy houses back then. In other words, a massive and costly cornerstone of American housing policy isn't even something...
...goes to a whorehouse, picks out the largest-fake-breasted woman in the world, has sex with her and brands her with his initials. In How I Met Your Mother, his high-fiving, high-finance character has slept with more than 200 women and spouts catchphrases about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays, the show's co-creator. "It gives him a good entry for satire. That was the wink of his performance." Harris...