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Howard, in the scrum half position, exploded in the first minutes of the match to score and put Harvard ahead. By the end of the game, Howard had scored two tries. Senior prop Matteo Peccei scored the second try of the game, Marx said...
...Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code, which permits U.S. companies to shelter the profits of their Puerto Rican subsidiaries. Now worth about $3.4 billion a year, this huge tax break was intended to create industry and jobs. To the statehooders, both the commonwealth and its chief economic prop, Section 936, are obsolete because they no longer produce much economic growth. Rossello argues that Puerto Rico can go forward only with "full participation, with all the rights, all the privileges but also all the responsibilities" of statehood. While he makes the transition sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto...
Higher education in general, and Harvard in particular, claims to exists for the pursuit of truth. Some, like John Trumpbour, editor of How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire (1989) believe that the University is a sort of bourgeois conspiracy to prop up the ruling class. Most of us would have a more sympathetic view of Harvard. And higher expectations...
...Perot charts and graphs, Bill Clinton naturally produced a memorable prop -- the dummied-up universal-coverage ID card -- during his health-care speech. But the grandstanding use of visual aids is a recurring story in modern American politics...
...secularism, which makes it possible for more and more people to think of God as an idea that belongs to the past. She also notes in all three faiths a surging counterrevolutionary fundamentalism that to her represents a problem rather than a solution: its proponents "use 'God' to prop up their own loves and hates." In short, this kind of religiosity is simply a new idolatry and thus represents a retreat from...