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Once again, Feole’s teammates followed the captain’s lead, scoring two goals in the game’s next eight minutes, giving Boston College the commanding 6-0 lead heading into the break...
...female undergraduate was victim of a similar attack outside Lamont Library. She reported that an unidentified man wrapped a thin wire around her neck as she walked down the stairs next to Pusey Library...
...budget - the President had to come back in 1982 with the largest peacetime tax increase in American history: the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which raised $37.5 billion, or 1% of gross domestic product (GDP), per year. He also signed a $3.3 billion gasoline-tax increase. The next year, he signed another whopping tax hike, designed to save Social Security...
...best deal if they're spending their own money rather than their employer's. The idea is a nonstarter, however, because organized labor has negotiated excellent health benefits for its members over the years and doesn't want to see them curbed. The unions are opposed to the next-best idea - a tax on gold-plated health-care plans, which would raise an estimated $28.7 billion per year - for similar reasons. It seems likely that union lobbyists will get that tax reduced, if not eliminated, in the next month's sausagemaking. And then what? Barack Obama's fate depends...
...national scandal that we're nowhere close to having a reasonable discussion about taxes. A Reagan-size increase probably would be unwise right now, given the shaky economy. But the conversation will become unavoidable next year, when the Bush tax cuts expire. A restoration of the Clinton rates would go a long way toward paying down the Bush deficits and the assorted Bush-Obama federal bailouts and creating some breathing space if health reform costs more than expected. One hopes that Democrats, and fiscally responsible Republicans, will locate the backbone between now and then to do the right thing...