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...explanation for the tax, and at the time that this editorial went to press we are unaware of any student group that has received any explanation from any branch of the University. For students groups, the uncertainty associated with the new diktat can be paralyzing. Many student groups depend heavily on gift account contributions for their source of funding. The Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP), for example, derives 35 percent of its budget from donations to its gift account. Without transparency and clarity, they cannot adjust their spending plans and fundraising goals. The advantage of using gift accounts...
...field Saturday. At the tailback position, sophomores Mike Kielt and Terrance Gass had only one start between the two of them last season; Kielt saw time in nine games to Gass’s six.In the bigger picture, the outcome of tomorrow’s game will likely depend on the ability to capitalize on turnovers and create big plays.“Those are the two biggest factors you look to in a coaching game,” Gilmore said. “The team that wins the turnover battle and has more big plays is the team that...
...pursue a Middle East peace agreement. But where Clinton at least brought to bear the power of the presidency of the United States, all Blair really has to offer is his ostensible influence with the President of the United States, on whose intervention any new peace agreement would depend. Blair, however, has had limited success in his efforts over the past five years to get the Bush Administration to apply itself to the priority of forging a peace agreement; his prospects of success will hardly have improved now that he has declared himself a lame duck...
...sense of suspicion still hangs in the air, and Tehran probably can't ignore it. To the outside world, the Iranian government projects an image of national resolve as it defies U.N. Security Council demands to stop enriching uranium. But the regime's ability to withstand international pressure may depend on how forgiving Iranians are about the sluggish economy. The rate of inflation is at least 19%, and unemployment has edged up to 15%. At a press conference last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fended off criticism of his economic program by swinging attention to foreign policy and calling...
...there's a big problem with Loose Change and with most other conspiracy theories. The more you think about them, the more you realize how much they depend on circumstantial evidence, facts without analysis or documentation, quotes taken out of context and the scattered testimony of traumatized eyewitnesses. (For what it's worth, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a fact sheet responding to some of the conspiracy theorists' ideas on its website, www.nist.gov. The theories prompt small, reasonable questions that demand answers that are just too large and unreasonable to swallow. Granted, the Pentagon crash site...