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Marketed as a Valentine's Day present to tax-obsessed lovers, the bill would close the marriage gap for those who currently suffer from it by increasing the standard deduction for two-earner households and raising the payments to married couples under the Earned Income Tax Credit, a worthy program that supports the working poor. However, the bill would also move many well-off married couples from the 28-percent to the 15-percent tax bracket, regardless of whether they were affected by the marriage penalty or not. As a result, according to the research group Citizens for Tax Justice...
...this sea of ridiculously expensive and severely offensive T-shirts, I spotted a Harvard couple from my house six rows back, clad conservatively in jeans and Gap T-shirts. I sighed with relief, and ran over. "Hi! I'm with the Harvard Crimson, Arts actually,"(confused stares) "you know, all the choreography. And, well, I'm basically wondering what on earth you're doing here?" Her stare becomes even more confused, he turns back towards the fight. Obviously I've missed some large point about the relevance of senseless simulated slaughter in our society. So I make them smile...
...been unsuccessful at recruiting police officers from other nations to aid in cracking down on vigilante violence. The U.S., which has already committed itself to the region, should step in to fill the gap if necessary...
...fact, recent years have not seen an overall growth in costs but rather a widening gap between expensive top colleges and cheaper, less rigorous ones, she said...
...impossibly steep cliff that stands between him and the nomination. His next jagged ledge on the way up: the Feb. 19 primary in South Carolina, where he trails Bush by a 20-point margin, 52% to 32%, in the latest TIME/CNN poll. That's down from a 47-point gap just two months ago, but Bush and his advisers are so sure they can squash McCain in South Carolina that they're playing it safe in New Hampshire. Where McCain's events in the state last week were crowded with believers and flushed with underdog excitement, Bush's were often...