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...paper-or to stay in the current system. He would pay for this by raising the cap on the Social Security payroll tax from $90,000 to $200,000, and by changing the benefits formula to reflect changes in consumer prices rather than wages, an option sanctioned by the Moynihan-Parsons Commission in 2002. Graham blanched when I called it a tax increase, so let's call it a shockingly supple revenue emolument. It is unlikely to attract support from the cowboy wing of the G.O.P...
Since then, with the exception of last year, the Crimson and the Yalie Daily have been exchanging hoaxes. When Harvard Harvard hosted The Game in 1970, a fake issue of the Crimson proclaimed the Harvard Corporation had chosen Nixon advisor Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education on leave, to replace retiring President Nathan M. Pusey...
...lucky me. Peggy “John’s Sister” Kerry hesitantly makes the rounds, looking confused as she speaks with prominent Democratic fundraisers and MoveOn.org execs. Apparently bewildered, Kerry sticks close to her guides, the late Sen. Daniel Moynihan’s daughter Maura Moynihan ’79 and her curly-haired son. (I chat with Maura briefly; she’s attractive, friendly, bordering on perky. It turns out she brings in lots of money for the Democratic Party, and even went to Harvard! Do you have a daughter, Ms. Moynihan...
Strict but colorful nuns and life-changing Jesuit priests also populate the former altar boy's fond rendering of the tight-knit Irish Catholic world of his childhood, where John F. Kennedy was king. It was good preparation for an early job working for New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--Russert's intellectual father--who assured him that having hauled garbage during the summer, Russert would always have the advantage in a roomful of eggheads...
...more today.) Those “masters” in the General Assembly include the Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...