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Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) organizations will now face a University-levied tax on the tax-deductible money that they receive from donors—a policy that affects student groups that hold gift accounts through Harvard...
...demanded accountability up the chain of command. "What are we fighting for?" the Senator asked at a hearing. "To be like Saddam Hussein?" On Bush's biggest domestic initiative, Graham supported the President's idea to add individual savings accounts to Social Security but also suggested a heretical payroll-tax increase to finance them. He infuriated the right last year by joining the bipartisan, largely moderate "Gang of 14" that blocked a change in Senate rules that would have ended Democratic filibusters of Bush's judicial nominees. Graham more recently helped ice the appeals-court nomination of Defense Department counsel...
...process hearing, the school district's attorney "was telling us that we were bad parents and that we just wanted to have an easy life," Jeff says, blinking back tears. He also insists that "we're not insensitive to the money issues." But he argues that the family's tax dollars contribute to the $2 million tuition-assistance fund Colorado created this year to help local districts with children whose special-ed services cost $50,000 or more a year. In other words, Luke is entitled to his share...
...larger pattern of Islamic conquest. Although treatment of "unbelievers"-notably those on the Indian subcontinent-could be brutal, ?People of the Book,? as Christians and Jews were known, often maintained their distinct religious communities. True, they were regarded as second class citizens and had to pay a poll tax and a land tax. It could be a demeaning life, and many converted, but others did not, as is indicated by large Christian minorities in many majority-Muslim states today...
...Furthermore, we support Patrick’s comprehensive and forward-thinking plan to invigorate Massachusetts’ economy through state-funded initiatives—initiatives that would be jeopardized were the income tax to be reduced. By investing in our mass transit systems and expanding them to economically underserved areas, Patrick believes that the Commonwealth can rejuvenate Massachusetts’ recessed urban areas such as New Bedford and Worcester. After 16 years of neglect for the Commonwealth’s mass transit network, Patrick’s emphasis on this issue is refreshing and welcome...