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Emerging from Harvard's hall of mirrors, I sense a bittersweet surplus of irony and hypocrisy. I've continually been reminded of a Wall street Journal Cartoon which appeared only a few years ago. One member of congress walks by the Capitol as he confides to another: "I'm liberal," he says, "except where I'm concerned." This delicious quip has applied exceedingly well to almost all places and times, sometimes to my annoyance and other times to my amusement...
House Republicans easilypassed their historic legislation to balance the federal budgetin a well-scripted, near-party-line vote of 238-193. The bill, which the GOP claims would lead to the first budget surplus since 1969, aims to bring to an end decades of federal deficits by wrenching an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in savings from budgets over the next seven years.Medicare and Medicaid would take the biggest hitsand hundreds of other federal programs would vanish. But majority House members -- unlike senators, who today began debating their $961 billion measure -- would try toease the painwith $350 billion in tax breaks...
...letter was real vague-it didn't say just what this new job was," the official says. Though he worked off and on as a security guard, both near his hometown of Pendleton, New York, and in Arizona, Terry Nichols has said the two also worked together selling Army surplus at shows around the country...
...Japan has some good reasons not to fret too much over its $66 billion trade surplus with the U.S. and the strong yen that it produces. The currency makes foreign investments cheap and helps Japanese firms build factories around the world, especially in Asia. In America, Japanese automakers for the first time last year produced more cars and trucks than they exported from Japan. That turned around Japan's faltering share of the U.S. automotive market, from...
Some residents said last night the city should be spending less, lowering commercial property taxes and saving surplus tax dollars in a fund balance--essentially the city's savings account, used for unforeseen circumstances and non-budgetary expenditures...