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...relief for everybody else. They are also that much more detached from recognizing the costs of government." This argument is historically obtuse, considering that the federal income tax was initially designed to hit only a tiny minority of high earners and exempt the other 99% (it first became a mass tax during World War II). It's also misleading, in that lucky duckies still get hit with payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, federal excise taxes, state and local sales taxes...
...sight," Hamad told TIME. "The only person I saw fired an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] at me." With the help of U.S. soldiers, the police began taking back the streets and now patrol them on their own. Stores are open, and a church is once again celebrating Mass. But Hamad said he never could have done the job without the help of a local Awakening group that the government is disbanding, concerned that the loyalties of its members are uncertain. Hamad thinks this is a mistake. "Some of these people helped al-Qaeda [only] because they needed the funds...
...cuts, announced by Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 earlier this month in response to the deepening economic crisis, trimmed over $1 billion from the state budget...
...these bodies. Free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free!” Leaving her choreography and directing projects in New York for the weekend, Peck returned to her alma mater to instruct a workshop on creativity in dance expression for the budding CityStep teachers. Underneath her wavy mass of dark hair, Peck’s eyes light up behind her glasses as she describes her work, which ranges from teaching community-based performance at Duke and NYU to running a web strategy firm in New York. But Peck is most animated when she talks about her continued involvement with...
...With only six hours in a school day, most teachers are pressured to focus on academic material in order to improve student performance on standardized testing such as those administered by the Mass. Comprehensive Assessment System, school administrators...