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...other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs to do is figure out a more complex but also more beneficial fix, one that adjusts for the ravages of inflation. Don't get me wrong. A cut in the capital-gains tax rate is a good proposal. But simple is not best in this case. Indexing for inflation is a better plan, even if it's too logical for policymakers...
...think it of very great importance," wrote Gouverneur Morris to George Washington in 1790, advising him on how to furnish the presidential mansion, "to fix the taste of our country properly...everything about you should be substantially good and majestically plain, made to endure." Modern Americans are taught to love luxury, to think of it as a reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There...
Harvard needs to do more. And yet, short of creating literally hundreds of new professorships, a move that is inadvisable for obvious reasons, there exists no quick-fix solution. However, this does not mean that Harvard must accept the gender disparity as an unfortunate but irredeemable fact. If the Administration truly believes the propaganda about the importance of women on the campus that it has been spouting via the Gazette in recent weeks, it should take concerted positive steps to attract top women scholars...
...keep it from overheating in the sun. In April, Congress began work on a budgetary amendment that would require NASA to certify Mir's safety before more Americans go aloft. Russia appears to realize that it will either have to scuttle the ship or invest the money to fix it properly. While Moscow has nothing like the ready rubles that flowed during the Sputnik days, the government is proving resourceful at scratching up funds...
...nicotine, high risk. Though cigarettes have less tar and nicotine nowadays, SMOKERS nevertheless face a greater risk of dying from a smoking-related illness than they did 30 years ago. Reason: to get their fix of nicotine, they smoke more cigarettes and take deeper drags...