Word: particularity
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...code has grown more and more complex, much too intricate for the average taxpayer to want to wade into. Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which simplified the code by taking away many tax preferences, managed to add complexity by limiting certain deductions to people falling into particular income brackets. In 2001 and 2003, just about the time tax prep technology should have been cementing its hold on the mass market, substantial changes - including new rules about dividends and capital gains - kept people moving in the other direction. The Alternative Minimum Tax, a net originally created to catch...
...most obvious issue pertaining to undergraduate education on the dean’s plate is the ongoing curricular review. On paper, the new system could either become a realigned Core or a completely different and innovative curriculum. Which path it takes lies in the finer details of its implementation, particularly finding and hiring personnel for the new system, all of which the new FAS dean will decide.The General Education system can only be a drastic change if it includes a plethora of new classes and an emphasis on pedagogical innovation. For instance, Humanities 10, “An Introduction...
Because of my particular attachment to Harvard, it was encouraging to see the Crimson take an interest in the theft of music in recent editorials. It is no doubt part of a much-needed conversation about a vital issue to the music community, fans, higher education and anyone interested in working in an intellectual property-based industry (which probably includes most Harvard graduates...
...chances. “Ashley has a lot of knowledge on a wide range of topics,” said her father, Fred Grand. “She’s a pretty well-rounded person.” Grand said she excels at history, literature, and geography in particular. “She rocked the middle school quiz bowl circuit—she’s pretty impressive,” said Alexandra A. Mushegian ’10, a friend who saw Grand compete in trivia competitions several years ago and a Crimson editor. Grand said...
...confusion—combines action with perception, physical anatomy with clichéd poetry: “Then everything turned into a succession of concrete acts and proper nouns and verbs, or pages from an anatomy manual scattered like flower petals, chaotically linked.” In another particularly moving scene, “the mother of Mexican poetry” recalls seeing soldiers and tanks herding captive students and professors into a van “like something from a World War II movie.” Determined not to “let them write [her] into their...