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...Hampshire. Despite being among the 10 wealthiest states according to income and having a relatively low overall tax burden, the state also ranks dead last among all states in per-capita charitable giving. Even more telling is that 16% of New Hampshire families who report adjusted gross income in excess of $200,000 also report absolutely no charitable contributions. As New Hampshire goes, so goes the nation. THOMAS H. TRUNZO JR. Orford, New Hampshire
...report last week that Microsoft might invest in NBC's planned 24-hour news service, the rumors grew that Gates was after bigger game. A report in Variety said that Microsoft was considering buying as much as 49 percent of NBC in a deal that could cost in excess of $4 billion. A Microsoft spokesman would not comment on any negotiations. For Gates, says Elmer-DeWitt, such a deal would make sense in the long term. "A purchase of part of NBC would offer Microsoft a big boost of content for its Microsoft network, not now, but for later...
...college whose motto is veritas, Harvard has long suffered from an excess of bull, whether from gov-jocks shoveling it in section or pre-frosh trying to impress their hosts. With several presidential candidates and political gurus having visited in recent weeks, the problem has only grown worse...
Rather than being short of money, last year's council members thought the budget would be in excess of previous years this fall due to the rollover from grants they thought had been accumulating for some time...
...Yossi's world Philip Roth and his fictional double would be dismissed as a Jewish Amos and Andy, a contributor to "a culture of self-abasement and vulgar excess." Young Halevi's heroes were fighting Jews: the Zionist firebrands of the 1930s; the invincible Israeli army; and U.S. extremists like Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded the Jewish Defense League...