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...time, and the question you have to ask is, Why doesn't he give it up? It's Thursday morning, and Brown, mayor of Oakland, is standing in incandescent sunshine outside the renovated Sears store he calls home. Not much is going smoothly this morning: the city had its 50th murder the night before, adding to a huge spike above 2005; his opponent in the race for California attorney general has just called him soft on crime; one of the two charter schools he helped start is in need of cash; and now Fox television wants...
...paid by somebody, and it sure wasn’t going to be Dick Cheney. Bush decided on the upper middle class; though he cut taxes dramatically for the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers, he did very little for the upper middle class, those taxpayers between the 50th and the 1st income percentiles. This group wound up paying a larger share of the nation’s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting taxes to the wealthy. Bush covered...
...three of us [Shore, Hynes, and Hegge] played well both days,” Hynes said. “It was just crazy windy both days.” Freshman John Christensen put together rounds of 89 and 84, placing in a tie for 50th, while freshman Josh Isner added an 84 on day two to round out the scoring. With the year completed, the team is already looking ahead to next season, particularly to the challenge of replacing Hynes. “Obviously, he was really consistent all year,” Hegge said...
...50th reunion report, Stone described his service to Harvard as "probably the most worthwhile thing I have done in my lifetime...
Those are findings that ought to get people in bars across America thinking twice about their bad habits, because the implication is that smokers and drinkers should be getting screened earlier than ever for colorectal cancer. Doctors usually recommend that patients schedule their first exam on or near their 50th birthday. If you get a colonoscopy--considered the gold standard of screenings because it allows doctors to examine the whole length of the lower intestine and snip off any precancerous polyps they find--you may not need to be screened again for 10 years...