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...Weston proposes to finance the purchase by issuing bonds, selling 10 parcels of the land for development, and recovering the remainder in increased property taxes. VanderClock explained that the taxes should impose a mininimal burden on residents of the town, whose median household income of $153,918 was the highest in the state, according to the 2000 census. “The median real estate tax increase will only be $57 a year on average over the next 20 years,” she said. Amanda Jordan-Smith, 42, who has lived in Weston for two years, said...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: $22.5M Sale on Town’s Ballot | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...importance of voting and political activism—59 percent disagreed with the statement that “political involvement rarely has tangible results.” The youth vote dramatically exceeded expectations in the 2004 election as turnout jumped 11 percentage points from 2000—the highest jump in any age group—and was “especially high in the contested battleground states,” according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at the University of Maryland...

Author: By Joshua G. Allen, Marina Fisher, and Matthew T. Valji | Title: A Call to Students | 11/7/2006 | See Source »

...that kill scores of Sunnis each day. While he says illegal militias should be disbanded, he has vigorously resisted every U.S. operation against them. The Sunnis in Iraq's government are, if anything, even more extreme. Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, the Speaker of the Council of Representatives and Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni, has been closely associated with Ansar al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group that has targeted Shi'ites and secular Iraqis. He has blamed Iraq's problems on the Jews and has said statues should be erected to those who kill American troops. President Bush has lavishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For Dividing Iraq | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Oklahoma City bomber, spent time there before being transferred to Indiana, where he was executed in 2001. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is still at ADX, as is Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The common thread running through the crimes committed by these men accounts for the nickname given to the highest-security section of the prison: Bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bomber Row | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Vaillancourt’s exposure to the world’s highest level of play has also added to her already outstanding array of hockey skills...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HOCKEY PREVIEW 2006-07: Olympic Homecoming | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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