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When President Bush talks about his plan to stop taxing dividend income, he says he's doing it, in part, for philosophical reasons. "It's unfair to tax money twice," he said as he unveiled his economic-stimulus plan earlier this month. "There's a principle involved. The government ought to be content with taxing revenue streams or profits one time, not twice...
...numerous other Gay, Asian American and Native American Pride campaigns. Civil rights for Blacks were the start of civil rights for all. For instance, the gay rights movement has mimicked many of the tactics pioneered by civil rights activists during the 1960s, such as legal challenges to unfair laws, civil disobedience in the form of “sip-ins” to protest discrimination in bars and the “rights” rhetoric. Before there was the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Title IX of 1972, or the Americans with Disabilities...
...that’s the way it should be. It’s easy to talk about homecourt advantage. It’s also depressing and, often, unfair. Ivy League basketball should be about the players and, when you’re Harvey and are bringing the ball up the court trailing by one with a minute to go, about possibility. Not about ghosts and domes...
...lessen our dependence on oil. And the $12 billion he promised for AIDS research can potentially ease the suffering of millions of people. But the extent of these proposals are miniscule next to Bush’s budget cuts. In effect, they are just sugar-coating a nonsensical and unfair economic platform that will disproportionately benefit the richest Americans and place a fiscal burden on future generations who will be forced to deal with today’s rising debt...
...country, especially those in the Ivy League, have undertaken a thorough reexamination of their recruiting policies. Indeed, just this past summer, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents reduced the number of football recruits that each school is allowed from 35 to 30. These trends indicate a decreased tolerance for unfair admissions policies, of which affirmative action is a prime example