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Meanwhile, the bill establishes a program to allow workers 64 and younger who buy insurance with high deductibles to shelter income from taxes by putting money in special savings accounts. Earnings can be withdrawn tax free as long as the money is used for health care. Republicans believe the accounts will help workers buy plans that better suit their individual needs and accumulate tax-free money to pay for health care in retirement. Democrats argue that the program is a boon to the wealthy who can afford to put money aside. --By Douglas Waller
...belief, though, was common to both men: a conviction that India would be no home for bigots. Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu fanatic who claimed that Gandhi was making too many concessions to Muslims; Nehru offered shelter in his house for Muslims during the riots that followed India's independence. Islam, in Nehru's view, was a fundamental part of India's culture. His great treatise on his nation's history, The Discovery of India, written when he was put in jail by the British, describes the mind-boggling diversity of religions, cultures, kingdoms and empires that...
Lowell resident tutor and Executive Director of the Phillips Brooks House Association Gene A. Corbin has also incorporated public service into the day by enabling students and tutors to cover shifts serving dinner to those less fortunate at a local homeless shelter...
...rate is 49%, though the wealthiest estates could wind up paying as much as 57% in federal and state estate taxes in decoupled states. Chane says the burden is "particularly acute" for married couples because their estate plans usually include what is known as a bypass or credit-shelter trust, which is designed so that no tax is paid when the first spouse dies. Yet this standard strategy can't shield an estate from the extra state...
...rest of the teams in the Ivies might begin to treat Harvard like they treat Columbia. But the Crimson will be twelve games more mature and cohesive as a unit regardless of its record, it will have its star player back and it could use the shelter of the underdog to shock some people...