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President Bush may have drawn cheers at campaign rallies last year by calling the federal income tax code "a complicated mess" and promising to make its "million pages" simpler and fairer. But H&R Block can breathe easy for another season. Bush aides tell TIME that the President is likely to postpone any big push for comprehensive tax reform--which looked like it would be a centerpiece of next year's agenda--until '07 or '08. In the meantime, he will probably start small by mentioning the issue in the State of the Union and other addresses next year...
Candidates for Undergraduate Council (UC) president and vice-president have been subject to Harvard’s own version of campaign finance reform this year. In the hope of making the race fairer, reforms enacted last year by the UC expand and equalize the spending ability of each ticket. Under the new guidelines, each pair of running mates receives $400 from the UC budget to finance their campaign, a significant jump from the $100 available last year. This swelling of campaign war chests has improved the quality of this year’s race by allowing candidates to focus...
...swing-vote made her opinion critical in many decisions, it is even more critical that Senate Democrats and Republicans reject Alito. Yet, even without such considerations of balance on the Court, his record is more than a sufficient basis for our opposition.The U.S. is a safer, healthier, and fairer place to live in than it was 50 years ago, due in large part to the Court’s affirmation of fundamental constitutional rights. Since then, civil-rights legislation, environmental protection, and legal abortion have contributed to the progress of our society. People who oppose such core rights and protections...
...prompted an emotional crisis that ebbed when a wealthy widow hired Beethoven as a private music tutor. He was drawn to the widow’s 16-year-old daughter Eleonore, whom he taught piano—but the love was unrequited. He never had much luck with the fairer sex, and he nevera married despite interest in a number of women. Prudishness and shyness are partial explanations: when one woman made passes at him in a tavern, “He was at first cold, and then violent, giving her head a sharp smack,” Morris writes...
...Kashmir earthquake. And it is true that with regards to charitable donations by the University, the administration is beholden to the emotions of the community—emotions that are largely drive by what we are fed by the media—but we fail to see a fairer system devisable. The University must balance competing interests and make these tough decisions, and so far the administration has looked to community outcry. In the case of when to match donations, we feel that the administration has done a good job of sensing and responding to such outcry...