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...Street BUSH TAX CUTS Should the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts be rolled back for families making more than $250,000? Yes Would use these funds to offer new health- and child-care tax credits Yes He would instead provide a $1,000 income tax credit for families to offset payroll taxes No Wants to make the tax cuts permanent MORTGAGE HELP The government is bailing out banks. Should it rescue home owners facing default? Yes Favors a 90-day halt on subprime foreclosures and a five-year freeze on subprime interest rates Yes Would help people refinance, using...
...shied from making predictions after her testimony, but indicated that she would continue to follow the issue closely and, if warranted, participate in a similar event next year. The $2.1 billion would come from cuts in other federal programs, but the amendment does not specify the sources of the offset. Another amendment, proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 to permit future Congressional action to provide more low-interest loans to college students, also passed in Thursday’s session. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached...
Whether the rewards she offers us are sufficient to offset the film's cliches of setting and the predictabilities of its emotional landscape are an open question. But I don't think you'll see a more fascinating and nuanced performance at the movies this year...
...This is another big reason why Japan is struggling to fill its classrooms. To offset dwindling enrollment, faculties need to reach out globally to attract foreign students as well as top-notch foreign teachers, who bring with them the ability to win lucrative research grants. But foreigners who opt to study in Japan sometimes regret their decision. Martin Rieger, a German attending Aoyama Gakuin University in central Tokyo, says that after one semester, he worries that he's falling behind his peers at his home university near Luxembourg. "I'm writing about topics and issues that will help...
...ability to convert on the interior,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “We had no answers for [senior forward John] Baumann and with the strength they had and the way they were attacking the glass, we needed to make some shots to offset that and we didn’t.” Down 13 early, the Lions went on a 20-6 run to recapture the lead with 1:02 remaining in the first half. Columbia’s big men—Baumann and senior forward Ben Nwachukwu—scored...