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...domination of the governor’s mansion in a year that portends well for Democrats. And though she has relied largely on the strategy that proved successful for her predecessors—highlighting her moderate positions on abortion and stem cells while pushing a reduction in the income tax??polls have Healey trailing Patrick by 21 points a day before the election. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
This hesistance is not exclusive to Harvard; it’s a disease that plagues American discourse. Especially in the realm of politics, verbal acumen (e.g., Republicans’ “death tax??) obscures the debate. But in the wake of former University President Summers’ “women in science” debacle—no! we can’t debate that! I’ll faint!—Harvard’s lack of discomforting, yet potentially illuminating, discourse should be on all students’ minds...
...that you can’t draw a direct link between the increased rates of obesity in this country and sugar-sweetened beverages, but there is an association.” The new research has led some public health experts to renew calls for a “fat-tax?? that would help limit soda intake, much in the way tobacco taxes limit cigarette consumption. “If you look at the cigarette literature, there’s a lot of info that applies—if prices go up, buying goes down, especially among younger consumers...
...benign-sounding “estate tax?? is now better known by the nefarious moniker “the death tax.” The Democrats, of course, play the same game, though perhaps less successfully; the Republican strategy for eliminating judicial filibusters, “the constitutional option,” is now universally referred to as “the nuclear option” by Democrats...
...magazine are certainly not monolithic. For instance, in a 1997 article, economist Irwin Stelzer writes that, to achieve “the long-held and very American ideal of equality of opportunity,” conservatives like himself might consider the possibility of imposing a 100 percent inheritance tax??at least for large estates...