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...quoted 2004 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that families earning at least $70,200 a year spent $269,520 raising one child--and that's just until the age of 17. Tack on four years of college, and you're looking at a nearly half-million-dollar tab for each, or almost $3 million for six. "If you sit down and write out the numbers, nobody would have children," scoffs Jen Reid, 37, a stay-at-home mom in Berwyn, Pa. "You would scare yourself out of it every single time." She and her husband Charlie...
...Willey-Snow ticket was most recently handed a 100 dollar penalty for sending out an e-mail that was illegally blind carbon-copied (bcc'd) to several people, including a member of the election commission and the blockmate of an opposing candidate, commission official James W. Anderson ’09 told The Crimson. The commission’s official rules for the election explicitly prohibit the use of unsolicited e-mail campaigning in forums beyond open e-mail lists...
...violation will not be officially assessed until the pair has a chance to appeal tonight, Anderson said. If approved tonight, the penalty will put the Willey-Snow campaign at the 395.95 dollar mark of the 400 dollars in campaign expenditures that the election commission allows each candidate...
...According to the commission’s rules, “if a campaign commits a number of violations such that its entire 400 dollar spending limit is penalized, the EC may make a determination that the campaign merits disqualification...
...transit bombings, two of the suicide bombers went white-water rafting together. Given these flickerings of a pattern, the Circuit City tape, which might have been ignored 10 years ago, set off a cascading series of actions. Each step led inexorably to the next, adding up to a multimillion-dollar case, which may have saved people's lives - or not. "That's the problem," says Michael N. Huff, attorney for Dritan. "The government does not have to wait. So you'll never know what would've happened...