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...policy to spur growth, Kerry sees it as a tool of social intervention. His main proposal would raise taxes for those earning more than $200,000 a year and use that money to fund tax credits for college tuition and child care. Kerry takes a further swipe at offshore outsourcing with a proposal to start taxing corporate income earned in other countries...
...nearly unheard of in the mutual-fund industry, but last week Fidelity Investments, run by Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, right, cut expenses on five of its index mutual funds. The move, which follows other fee cuts, like the elimination of many funds' sales charges, was a direct swipe at index-fund leader Vanguard Group and a nod to the increasing popularity of exchange-traded funds--low-cost baskets of stock that track particular indexes and trade on stock exchanges. Expenses on the five funds, which are pegged to such benchmarks as the S&P 500 or the Wilshire...
Rees caught the tempo and spirit of today's more upbeat Jerusalem, but I was disturbed by his comments on the Ethiopian Jews who work as restaurant security guards and search customers' bags and swipe patrons with metal detectors. Rees noted that most of the guards are "drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community [because] few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death." This is an injustice to the Ethiopian-Jewish community...
...never seen a more biased interview than Mark Thompson's "10 Questions for Tommy Franks" [Aug. 9]. Every question was a not so thinly veiled swipe at the war in Iraq and the Bush Administration, obviously designed to get Franks to agree with Thompson's views. I am thankful Franks didn't take the bait. CHRISTOPHER J. RODEL Sun Prairie...
...Speaking Frankly I've never seen a more biased interview than Mark Thompson's "10 Questions for Tommy Franks" [Aug. 9]. Every question was a not-so-thinly veiled swipe at the war in Iraq and the Bush Administration, obviously designed to get Franks to agree with Thompson's views. I am thankful General Franks did not take the bait. Christopher J. Rodel Sun Prairie, Wisconsin...