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Reaping What We Sow Re "Life Without Credit" [Nov. 3], Bill Powell is spot on in identifying what this financial mess is all about: too much debt. But it is distressing that the only proposed solutions involve rewarding more debt. Let's, at least for the short term, raise taxes on well-off corporations and wealthy individuals, stop senseless wars financed by debt and eliminate the income-tax deductions for home-mortgage interest. Plus, don't artificially lower interest rates - this punishes those who saved sensibly. And we must all prioritize our spending wisely. I'd rather have fewer mortgage...
...common narrative of mankind's development generally starts with humans planting crops and settling down in one place to reap what they sow, founding villages that would form the building blocks of human civilization. But further study of the Natufian culture and other parallel societies, such as those living by China's Yellow River, is complicating that belief. Agriculture was not established in the Levant when the Natufians lived there, but they still erected rudimentary structures to inhabit. Traces in the soil of the remains of mice and sparrows - animals that exist most commonly in places of human settlement - point...
...you” could select music, I hadn’t realized that “you” actually meant my supervisor, Allie, who had one simple rule: Ashlee Simpson. On repeat.The $4.25 an hour was the final insult. On the first payday I even attempted to sow the seed of discontent among my coworkers, heavily referencing OSHA to no avail. I became bitter, seeing my associates as nothing but hapless lambs waiting to be slaughtered, content with their slave wages and unwilling to stand up for justice. Then again, I was a raging hypocrite in that I didn?...
Entering the endgame of a presidential election, gloves come off and campaigns often resort to less-than-honorable tactics to energize supports or sow doubt among an opponent’s potential voters. The McCain-Palin ticket has epitomized this fourth-quarter retreat into murky tactics, for example, with its use of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, as political ammunition. Appealing to the worst of voters’ prejudices, such tactics are particularly fiendish for their ability to degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that...
...Appeal to Reason,” Rise Against is in a constant state of urgency. The single “Re-Education (Through Labor)” makes a promise to those in charge: “We sweat all day long for you / But we sow seeds to see us through… / We wait to reap what we are due.” On “Hero of War,” Rise Against goes acoustic with a first-person account of a remorseful soldier who asks his son, “Son / Have you seen...