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...punative response to allegations of drug use.GOOD TRIPS & BAD VIBESHarvard Square was a hotbed for drug dealers and experimenters in the 1960s, and according to a March 1965 Crimson story, then-Middlesex Superior Court Justice Frank W. Tomasello alleged that institutions like Harvard were to blame. “Tax-free institutions,” he said during the 1965 sentencing of an accused 19 year-old drug dealer, “should screen out those they let in.”Dana L. Farnsworth, then-director of University Health Services, reacted in The Crimson. “Perhaps...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Half-Baked at Harvard | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...months ago, 150 religious leaders gathered in the rotunda of the Capitol to pray for the failure of a budget bill that would cut $40 billion from education, health care, and child support for low-income families while giving tax cuts to the rich. The participants in this civil disobedience protest included Catholic bishops, Protestant ministers, rabbis, imams, and volunteers who work at faith-based charities—a diverse group, united by a conviction that this budget bill was against their deepest religious beliefs. The protestors knew that they would be arrested for blocking the entrance of the Capitol...

Author: By Loui Itoh | Title: The Crusade for a Moral Budget | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

...Even worse are the Christian organizations on the right, such as the Family Research Council, that supported the budget bill. They argue that tax cuts stimulate the economy and help everyone by providing jobs, etc. But a study conducted by United for a Fair Economy reveals that, Bush’s “tax cuts have not produced the jobs promised, [and] the quality of jobs as measured by income, health insurance, and retirement benefits has declined.” Indeed, job creation under President George W. Bush has been the lowest since World War II, while hourly...

Author: By Loui Itoh | Title: The Crusade for a Moral Budget | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Economic evidence demonstrates that you can’t help the poor by giving tax cuts which disproportionately help the rich. Common sense says that you can’t help the poor by getting rid of taxes and relying on charitable contributions. Scriptural evidence reveals that Christians should be fighting poverty, not the labeling on holiday stationary. Despite the efforts of hundreds of religious leaders to halt this immoral bill, it passed both Houses of Congress and is about to become law. How can so many people who claim to live by Jesus’ teachings support a bill...

Author: By Loui Itoh | Title: The Crusade for a Moral Budget | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Benigno Fitial, Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands and a former Abramoff client who also attended the 2001 meeting, told TIME that he recalled the President as being "very gracious" at the session, during which Bush gave a short speech on tax policy. "He knew quite a few of the people in the room," Fitial said of the President. "He called them by their first name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abramoff's Kodak Moment | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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