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That is just the point -- reform has been marginal -- and it explains Gorbachev's latest, boldest move. Next month will be the fifth anniversary of his ascension. By Soviet reckoning it is the end of Gorbachev's personal first five-year plan. It is therefore a time of judgment. The...
When a public forum like the editorial page of a somewhat enlightened newspaper such as The Crimson becomes the site for disciplining the already marginal voices of campus gays and proscribing for them more acceptable mores (read here also the word "Victorian," or even "Catholic") in place of some invented...
-- A Texas millionaire in 1981, at the dawn of the Reagan/Bush era, was in the 70% marginal tax bracket. Of the next $1,000 he earned, $700 went to the Federal Government. Today he's in the 28% tax bracket.
-- By contrast, the rich Texan's plumber, self-employed and earning $30,000, was in about the 40% marginal tax bracket. Of the next $1,000 he earned, $400 went to the government -- $100 or so to Social Security, $300 to income tax. Today he's in the 43% bracket...
Pro-academic forces lost a few yards on another rule entangled in racial tensions. Last year the NCAA passed Proposition 42, which would have denied any scholarships to athletes who fail to meet basic requirements, essentially: 1) a C average in eleven high school core subjects and 2) a score...