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Tucked inside the 2005 budget from the Bush Administration is a proposal that may prompt you to sigh with relief if you have feared being hit with the alternative minimum tax (AMT). It's a patch--not a full-strength remedy--for a complicated tax that was designed to prevent the wealthy from avoiding taxes but is increasingly hitting the wallets of middle-class taxpayers...
Quincy House contains the only (renovated) River House dining hall with no inter-House dining restrictions, and the House recently debuted another feature to be proud of: new state of the art fitness facilities. Quincy’s prompt gym-updating efforts should be applauded and emulated, and its residents have reason to be proud. Hopefully, the revamped Quincy gym is a preview of things to come campus-wide...
...those of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV) have argued time and time again against instituting the judicial safeguards that make state courts relatively fair and the Ad Board unfair. CASV has argued, among other things, against a standard of “independent corroborating evidence” to prompt an Ad Board investigation—something former Dean Harry R. Lewis nonetheless instituted—and for a near-absolute victim confidentiality. Massachusetts, as well as a score of other states, have confidentiality statutes where the accuser can keep her identity veiled, but the Ad Board?...
...last August. U.S. and U.N. officials privately say, however, the real concern is that Iraq's Sunnis, already a minority, are so poorly organized that direct elections would lead to a Shi'ite monopoly. That not only would stoke the flames of a potential Sunni rebellion but also could prompt Sunni states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to refuse to recognize the new Iraq and pave the way for an anti-American alliance with Iran...
...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute changed its guidelines last year. What it used to call a "high normal" level--from 120/80 mm Hg to 139/89 mm Hg--is now considered prehypertensive. The move should prompt more people to lower their salt intake and exercise, both ways to avoid high blood pressure...