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From its colonial origins as a training ground for ministers, the College has become home to a tremendously diverse student body, with fewer common goals...
...last night's meeting, which was attended by fewer than 50 council members, the dead weight seemed, well, dead. Many members were absent, and many who were present did not speak...
Sorensen will fill the position vacated this past summer by developmental psychologist Anne Colby, who departed the Murray Center after 18 years at Radcliffe. Colby currently serves as a senior scholar at the California-based Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Sorensen's hiring makes one fewer vacant post for Fay House to fill, as the Radcliffe administration seeks replacements for Vice President for Finance and Administration Nancy Dun and Director of Communications Lyn Chamberlin. Both departed Radcliffe in the last month...
Alternative minimum tax. Designed to afflict only the superrich, this monster increasingly soaks the middle class. More than 1 million taxpayers will owe it this year, and 9 million by 2008--including many earning considerably less than $100,000 a year. Little more than a decade ago, fewer than 100,000 people were subject to the AMT. It's a complicated tax that targets folks who avoid most traditional income taxes through large credits and deductions. High earners in high-tax states are most vulnerable, but anyone taking a large deduction for business expenses can fall victim. Tip: consult...
...that sink to the bottom of public discourse and stay there like sludge. The mind's response, after the 20th hearing, is a weary "Yeah, yeah." Got to get the kids off to school. Got to invest in a hog factory, build on a floodplain, send bigger boats after fewer fish. Write a check to Greenpeace. Buy Exxon Mobil. And be sure to pick up some bottled water...