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...Capitol Hill, campaign-finance reform remains the crusade that can't quite succeed yet just won't die. Last year Shays' bill, co-sponsored by Democrat Martin Meehan, passed the House by a wide margin, even drawing 61 Republican votes. It is likely to pass again when it is brought up in September, despite attempts by the Republican leadership to kill it with parliamentary maneuvering. The real hang-up is in the Senate, where majority leader Trent Lott has promised that a bill co-sponsored by McCain and Democrat Russ Feingold will be voted on by Oct. 12. The measure...
...addition to the traditional and electronic 401(k)s, small companies are trying a wide range of retirement options, from the simple, newer plans to time-tested profit-sharing arrangements that require the help of a financial professional. An option that became available in 1997 is the SIMPLE (savings incentive match plan for employees of small employers) IRA. The plan, open to any business with 100 or fewer employees, allows employers to match employee contributions by filling out one irs form and setting up an IRA. Another alternative is a SEP (simplified employee pension), which allows only the employers...
Newsgroups are accessible from all student accounts on the Harvard data communications network. They provide an electronic forum for discussion on a wide variety of subjects...
Though the bestial community is extremely diverse, embracing individuals from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds, we share a common experience of oppression and misunderstanding. We have been marginalized by an anthroposexist society solely on the basis of whom we choose to love. Because we refuse to form relationships according to socially constructed categories such as "species," we represent a fundamental challenge to the institutions and assumptions of specialist, theriophobic Western culture...
...Lawrence Summers was quoted Wednesday as vowing to halt all further IMF aid to Russia until the Kremlin had provided satisfactory accounting for previous loans. Meanwhile, the Yeltsin administration?s performance over the issue hasn?t given Western law enforcement much cause for confidence. The best efforts of a wide array of U.S. agencies to get the Russians to tackle money laundering have simply floundered. The New York Times reported Wednesday that a law against money laundering, developed with the help of U.S. officials, was twice passed by Russia?s parliament ?- and twice vetoed by Boris Yeltsin...