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...ideal world, marriage should have no impact on an individual's tax status. People should not be rewarded for being married, just as they should not be rewarded for remaining single. Due to the quirkiness of America's tax code, that will never happen. Some people will always pay a little more if they file together; others will pay less. A bill that addresses the inequalities would be a welcome change, but a bill that simply gives a tax cut only to families who happen to be married does not address the basic issue at stake...
...Hale is an ideal laboratory for the studio's architectural experiment. This region of west-central Alabama is one of the poorest stretches in the nation. The writer James Agee and the photographer Walker Evans passed the summer of 1936 here while preparing their Depression-era classic "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." While prosperity has come to parts of this area, the region is still dotted with the shacks chronicled in Evans' haunting photographs...
...This is a less than ideal place for this building," Osler said...
Plainly, Williams, 22, is out of her depth. She won't get near the final, and for some, that marks her as inconsequential. But this is where the Olympic ideal lives: in the noble struggles of those who compete with no chance of victory. That ideal - fragile, endangered, and often forgotten once the Games begin - drives Williams in a way Olympic winners may never understand...
...finish last, as if that matters compared to the rebuilding of a woman's dreams. The Olympic ideal allows for ambition, and in this she isn't lacking. It is victory she longs for; the thrill of speed is not, in itself, enough. Sierra Leone is a land of many diamonds, and Ekundayo Williams is as precious as any of them...