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...Jill Gerber, Grassley’s press secretary, said Wednesday that the Senator's office had not pushed the IRS to audit Harvard and that the IRS tends to maintain a degree of independence in these types of decisions...
...Dubai in Peril The crisis in Dubai is the crisis of unsustainable folly [Dec. 14]. It's amazing how eager our banks have been to pour money into a city-state sucking in vast amounts of energy and water to build and maintain a monstrous playground for the very rich. Heaven knows what its carbon footprint is. At its heart there is a sickness, with tales of dreadful working conditions for migrant laborers, who form a kind of permanent underclass. But what else can be expected of a place where the rich can party in their castles of sand while...
...Sources on all sides say they believe there ultimately will be a compromise that would maintain the tax but lift the threshold, so that it would be applied to fewer policies. Yet that would leave the question of where to raise the lost revenue; Obama has insisted that any bill that reaches his desk not add to the total federal deficit over the next 10 years...
...while it may be ahead in the domestic p.r. game on Gaza thus far, the regime of the aging President Hosni Mubarak, who has held power for nearly three decades, is struggling to maintain legitimacy in the face of other domestic threats. Corruption, police brutality, a widening income gap and a recent spike in Muslim-Christian violence have added fuel to Egypt's disorganized but politically diverse opposition. And it may not be long before Gaza comes back to haunt...
Despite the new bond issuance—which brings the University's total outstanding debt to $6.5 billion—Harvard will maintain its top-notch 'AAA' credit rating from both Moody's and Standard and Poor's, another credit rating service...