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...Dean Altshuler, while controversial in some of his actions, will leave the school in a very strong academic, administrative, and financial position as a result of his indefatigable work in defense and promotion of GSD interests,” Jorge Silvetti, a professor of architecture, wrote in an e-mail at the time...
...helping matters is global warming, the authors said, which is increasing the rate at which temperatures are rising and as a result, the rate at which people are dying...
...When you take a step back and look at the end result, you sort of say, This can't be right," argues Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of Illinois. Fleischer explained this conclusion in a paper that he began circulating last year. Since then, his brief for taxing carried interest as ordinary income--what the proposed House bill would do--has won over tax wonks and piqued congressional interest. "It seems like a reasonable argument," says Alan Auerbach, a University of California, Berkeley, economist and tax expert. "I don't think there are many people...
...tried to end the games without killing entrepreneurship by setting both rates at 28%. (A quirk in the law kept the effective top rate at 33%.) But since 1992, as the chart on the previous page shows, income and capital gains rates have followed very different paths. One inadvertent result has been a pronounced tax bias in favor of private-equity partnerships and against traditional corporations. It's a bias that Stephen Schwarzman has taken great advantage of over the past 15 years. Now he may just have helped end it. THE BIG TAX GAP The growing disparity between capital...
...Connor era, the center of the court has shifted several degrees to the right. Both Alito and Anthony Kennedy, who has emerged as the new swing Justice, are more conservative than O'Connor was on some key issues that came before the Justices this term. As a result, the court tacked right in decisions on issues ranging from partial-birth abortion and employment discrimination to, in recent days, campaign finance...