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...women ever ask that question? Doesn't a melee at the lipstick counter on Sale Day suggest that they too can be madly competitive? Once in a while, isn't the fairer sex horribly unfair to its own? Nichols doesn't think so. "Women's competitiveness with one another was always exaggerated, from the days of Clare Boothe Luce on," he says, referring to her 1936 play (and the 1939 movie) "The Women," which proposed that Manhattan's most privileged females were rolling and roiling in bitchery, gossip and recriminations, all designed to bring other women down. "And when cheese...
...Pring-Wilson may get a fairer trial here than he would elsewhere,” he said. “People elsewhere may have a higher bias against Harvard...
...let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s examine the few scraps of information that Bush has been kind enough to share about his plans. In his acceptance speech, Bush reflected on his desire to bring about “a simpler, fairer, pro-growth” tax system. And he promises to do it a “bipartisan” manner—appointing a panel of experts and economists who will advise his Treasury Secretary about bold new options for revamping the code in a revenue-neutral way (remember, after all, there...
...late 1990s. But Chavez, a harsh critic of the U.S. who accuses the Bush Administration of backing a failed coup against him in 2002--a charge the White House denies--has led a successful campaign to revive a demoralized OPEC, curtailing Venezuelan production to gain what Rodriguez calls "fairer prices...
...Unlike the U.S., Europe has a powerful, Continent-wide tax instrument at its disposal: vat. (Sales tax in the U.S. is administered by states, and thus can't be coordinated for economic effect.) Many economists argue that consumption taxes such as vat are inherently fairer than other types of taxation because you only pay the tax if you buy something. Some even argue that vat rates - which are now largely aligned in the E.U. - could be raised and lowered depending on how the economy is doing, just as the European Central Bank raises interest rates to prevent overheating, and lowers...