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...decision when it comes to higher (extension) education. You should have gone to Yale (extension or not extension; wait, is there a Yale not extension?). Someone forgot to tell you about the caveat about dropping the H-(extension)-bomb. Namely, if you’re a member of the fairer sex, it doesn’t work. Case in point—Natalie Portman ’03 (not extension): single. Barbara Bush (Yale ’04, not extension...
...nasty cold war between the federal judiciary and congressional Republicans. Judges used to have almost unlimited discretion. A defendant could receive 15 years in jail or probation, depending on which judge he or she stood before. But two decades ago, in an effort to make the system fairer, Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act, which established a commission of judges and other legal experts to craft a range of penalties for each crime. Judges could increase or decrease the prescribed sentences because of aggravating or mitigating factors--a gun was used in the crime, for example, or the defendant served...
...cost airlines like Southwest and JetBlue have long embraced such customer-friendly policies, but Delta is by far the biggest carrier to make such changes (America West Airlines started offering fairer fares in March 2002, followed by Alaska Airlines in February 2004). The airline hasn't published specific fares yet, but when it rolled out a test program in Cincinnati in August 2004, the highest ticket price to anywhere was $499 ($599 in first class). The delta.com website is also being revamped to ease the search for cheaper fares, as well as allowing passengers to get refunds and change tickets...
...letter to City Manager Robert W. Healy dated Dec. 13, Galluccio wrote that when dealing with Harvard, the city could get a fairer outcome—and more money—if PILOT increases were tied directly to the costs of city services provided to the University. The city budget tends to increase by about 5 percent annually, Galluccio wrote...
...Arnold were less ambitious for the Republican presidential nomination (28th Amendment, here we come!), he would also violate the right-wing shibboleth against ever seeking more revenue and fight for a fairer, simpler, and less capital-gains-dependent California tax code. And he would cash in October’s Ohio campaign trip and demand that President Bush return some of the $60 billion a year in federal taxes that California fails to get back in federal spending...