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...saga that began in a bar near the White House on a December afternoon in 1974. Huddled at a meeting arranged by Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski were Cheney, then the deputy chief of staff to Republican President Gerald Ford, and Laffer, who was teaching at the University of Chicago's business school after a stint in the Nixon White House. In trying to explain to Cheney why a tax hike mooted by the President might not be such a great idea, Laffer drew a chart on a napkin that showed government revenues increasing as the tax rate...
...bizarre saga has captivated Britain, seeping even into the top echelons of public life. During Prime Minister Gordon Brown's weekly Parliamentary grilling on Wednesday, Conservative leader David Cameron hammered the British leader for forgetting past promises: "He wants us to think he is like the man in the canoe - he hasn't been around for the past five years...
...good weekend for the kids of Cambridge in the Harvard-Yale saga, with women’s hockey shutting out the Bulldogs (3-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC) in New Haven on Friday before blanking Brown (1-6-1, 1-5-1) at Bright on Saturday.The pair of shutouts pushes the No. 7 Crimson’s undefeated record to 4-0-0 on the season, and propels it into a three-way tie atop the conference standings with St. Lawrence and Dartmouth.On the heels of a semifinal loss to the St. Lawrence in last season?...
...This was not a torture scene out of some fictional story, but rather a real moment in the saga of underground pledging to become a member of a Black Greek Letter organization. For far too long, men and women across the country, and yes, even at Harvard, have been participants in illegal or “underground” pledging activities that have subjected them to physical, emotional, and mental abuse, all in the name of black solidarity. The silence of these victims is simultaneously coerced and demanded by current and former allegiances, fear of punishment, embarrassment, and even self...
...trial marks the latest development in the four-year saga that began with a chance encounter between Pring-Wilson, then a master’s degree student in Russian and Slavic studies, and the now-deceased Michael D. Colono...