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...opinionated tabloid has also fought off numerous foes to become the capital's only afternoon read. Still, the challengers keep coming. Already suffering from steep drops in circulation (currently 301,000), the Standard now has to face two new free papers that could challenge its evening dominance. One, London Lite, is published by the Standard's own parent company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] Associated Newspapers. Launched last week with 400,000 copies daily, London Lite aims for young professionals seeking to ease commuter boredom, but not willing to shell out the U.S. 95? for the Standard. Handed...
Students Who Skip the Ivy League Our story debating the value of an Ivy League education got plenty of mail--not just about East Coast, élite colleges but also about state universities, small private schools, financial aid and consultants for hire. And most readers commented on the pressure of the application process...
...avoid paying it, but "this is not an option if your only asset of any real worth is the family home." Brown supporters quickly counterattacked, pointing out that inheritance tax brings in about $6 billion in revenue annually and depicting it as a levy on a small élite. "If you get rid of it, it follows that some other tax has to go up or you have to cut some public spending, on health and education," countered Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary. Abolishing inheritance tax "may make for a headline, but I don't think it makes...
...pitches on the often noted tendency of today's parents to ruin childhood by applying the same maniacal will to raising kids as they did to making partner before age 35. Marketers are no fools. They read Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks' satiric deconstruction of the new educated élite and its obsession with useful leisure activities, and they are well aware that today's overachieving superparents can't bear the thought of their obviously exceptional offspring wasting breath on any activity that won't help them win early acceptance to Princeton. ("Now, Sweetpea, you know Madison can't sleep...
...sound bite as in a solution, and others who pander to nativists, Pence has gone soft on illegal immigrants. He did it by coming up with a plan that House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner - another key figure in the immigration debate - uncharitably described this week as "amnesty lite...