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...House of Representatives, which has approved a partial version of Bush's tax scheme, the Ways and Means committee last week voted for its own version of immediate relief. The plan would double the $500-per-child tax credit and make it available to as many as 3 million families that currently pay no income tax, earning from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. In a rare move, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad asked Congress to pass some version of these proposals by the first week of April. Senate majority leader Trent Lott offered a more leisurely schedule, calling...
...partial elimination of the buffer zone carries risks. Serbian troops entering the area may include the same units, albeit under a different command, that operated in Kosovo. But Belgrade says it has imposed new rules for treatment of civilians, and NATO stresses that the effort is only a test. "If things go wrong," says a NATO official, "we're still in control...
...hints at the heart of his motive. "I can thumb my nose at Mr. Death and say, 'You might get me, but you're not going to get all of me,'" he says. "The special formula that is me will live on into another lifetime. It's a partial triumph over death. I would leave my imprint not in sand but in cement...
...million to each of four children? The savings have already been taxed as income or would be taxed as capital gain when heirs tapped it. Yet the estate tax--essentially, double taxation--virtually precludes the moderately rich from bequeathing financial security. This tax may even force the sale or partial liquidation of a farm or family business...
Even as Harvard sells the land, however, the divestment is only partial--the University-affiliated Partners HealthCare Corporation will become the main occupant of the office space on the site...