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Some student organizations, such as the Black Students Association, also organize study guide archives for their members. “We had the good idea to use our Web site as a resource for students to study for finals,” said BSA president Timothy D. Turner...
...conservation groups and Native American tribal communities that has sued the Federal Government to block construction in some areas. Plans in Eagle Pass, some 500 miles east of El Paso, call for the wall - now about 30% complete - to cross a municipal golf course. Initially, the city welcomed the idea of stadium lights on the bluff overlooking the city and the construction of a decorative fence, but when the plans were revealed, the wall-like barrier prompted community opposition. "One size doesn't fit all," insists Foster, whose community of some 50,000 people has close business ties to neighboring...
...midst of the transition, President Obama was faced with a telling policy choice: whether to declare a temporary sales-tax holiday. His economic advisers loved the idea. It would provide immediate consumer stimulus, a direct jolt that might unclog the commercial arteries. The money could be easily passed from the Federal Government to the states, which administer sales taxes. But Obama resisted and finally rejected the idea. "He thought it would provide a temporary benefit, that it had no substantial or lasting policy impact," a senior transition adviser told me. "I think he was remembering the campaign, when Hillary...
...what to do at this agency or how to deal with that policy, but that was an extension of how Clinton's mind works," says one of the many Obama aides who is a veteran of the Clinton Administration. "Clinton had this great horizontal intelligence. He could pull an idea from a meeting he had in northern Italy and apply it to spreading broadband service through Iowa. It was amazing but not exactly efficient. Obama is more vertical. He pushes the process along, streamlines it. We had one 25-to-50-page policy paper for every agency...
...catch in write-offs, however. Because of his high income, Geithner will most likely run afoul of the dreaded alternative minimum tax (AMT). Among other things, the AMT applies to people who would be able to use deductions to reduce a large portion of their federal income tax. The idea of the AMT is to make sure wealthier types pay their fair share. State income taxes and property taxes are federal-income-tax deductions. And since Geithner pays nearly $45,000 in those two taxes, he most certainly would be caught by the AMT. When...