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Aides to George Bush stunned Democrats and some Republicans last week by indicating that the President, in his annual budget request, would renew his long-standing campaign for lower capital-gains taxes. The strategy seemed a halfhearted attempt to appease conservatives who remain furious with Bush for agreeing to tax increases last year. Scoffed a Democratic aide to a congressional committee: "Maybe they'll ask for a capital-gains cut to pay for the gulf...
...brutal and terrifying act. Its occurrence in a university setting brought widespread attention to the ugly reality of violence against women. What was a senseless tragedy can be an important turning point if we use our remembrance of that event to renew and invigorate our efforts to understand and remove the causes of violence against one another...
...bigger problem for us is that 38 percent of all books in circulation last year were overdue. Raising fines from 10 cents to 25 cents should carry a message to users of Lamont (and Hilles and Cabot): renew your books...
Ames Professor of Law Philip H. Heymann testified before the House of Representatives this summer that the level of corruption was so severe that the federal government should not renew its contract with Harvard to fund the Center for Criminal Justice. The center had been operated here since 1987 under a three-year contract with the U.S. State Department...
This been an era of U.S. ascendance, says Henry Grunwald, former editor in chief of Time Inc., but if there is to be a Second American Century, the nation must renew and rebuild itself. Writes Grunwald: "It is unbelievable -- and unacceptable -- that the richest and most productive country in the world, which we still are, cannot find the means to exert international leadership while simultaneously improving its own society...