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A small provision in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 promises to save Harvard University-and many other private colleges and charities-millions of dollars in the coming years.
Nan F. Nixon, director of federal relations and the University's main lobbyist, said institutions capitalized on the Clinton Administration's spotlight on education to pass the bill. Long-time ally of the University, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) spearheaded efforts to push through the provision.
While violence tightens the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there appears to be some progress on the Israel-Syria front (TIME Daily) ... The Democratic Party's top lawyer has defended Al Gore's controversial White House fundraising phone calls (AllPolitics) ... A budget bill provision that was effectively funding the...
WASHINGTON: If there's one thing a Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of...
WASHINGTON: Millions of middle-class Americans could end up paying more to Uncle Sam in the next 10 years, thanks to an obscure provision of the tax code known as the Alternative Minimum Tax. Families of four with incomes of $58,300 in 1996 tax dollars will be hardest hit...