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...chance to take the easiest possible road to fandom: I grew up in San Francisco during the '80s and early '90s, in the age of Walsh, Montana, Rice and Young, and the five championships they brought to their adoring yet capricious faithful. Around age seven I decided that rooting for the Niners was really a waste of time - they would win with or without me. On the other hand, the Browns (my dad's team since his youth in Akron, Ohio) would benefit greatly from my psychic energy. It was a weighty decision to make at so young...
Quick: What do the Congo, the Philippines and the United States have in common? Each is adjusting to political life under a new president whose ascent has been challenged as undemocratic. But President George W. Bush is certainly having the easiest time of it - not surprising, perhaps, since at least he actually stood for election as president, even if his naysayers insist he lost at the polls. And even though the media may be recounting the ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush...
Sagarin also rates each teams "strength of schedule", which reveals how hard its schedule compared to the rest of the country. Penn has the 14th toughest schedule out of 325. Harvard ranks 321 out of 325: basically, it has the fifth easiest schedule in the country...
Another reason the Bush tax cut may not have much impact is that its biggest parts, like across-the-board rate reductions, are the ones least likely to sail through a sharply divided Congress. And the pieces that are easiest to pass, like an end to the marriage penalty for joint filers, are too small to do much to stimulate consumer spending. Democrats have accepted the inevitability of some kind of tax reduction's passing Congress this year. House minority leader Dick Gephardt has already said so. But none of them is prepared to support cuts of the size that...
...Another reason the Bush tax cut may not have much impact is that its biggest parts, like across-the-board rate reductions, are the ones least likely to sail through a sharply divided Congress. And the pieces that are easiest to pass, like an end to the marriage penalty for joint filers, are too small to do much to stimulate consumer spending. Democrats have accepted the inevitability of some kind of tax reduction?s passing Congress this year. House minority leader Dick Gephardt has already said so. But none of them is prepared to support cuts of the size that...