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...owners have to carry automobile insurance. But that means the Federal Government would have to subsidize people who couldn't afford it themselves, upping the health-care-reform price tag considerably. Obama says he can support an individual mandate only if it has a "hardship waiver to exempt Americans who cannot afford it," and he also says small businesses face a "number of special challenges in affording health benefits and should be exempted...
...University’s sole expert in Latin American politics at the time.In the months after the Dominguez incident went public, female graduate students began demanding that the University allow them to “dissociate” from individuals implicated in sexual misconduct. Students could then be exempt both from required enrollment in that instructor’s class and from facing that professor on an exam board. The policy was endorsed by the recently formed eight-student Government Department Sexual Harassment Committee, the Graduate Student Council, Women in Science, and the Radcliffe Union of Students.OPENING UP A PAINFUL...
...that Barack Obama was the correct choice for the 44th President of the United States.This year was one of scandals. It was disgraceful how many of Obama’s appointees had their nominations stalled due to tax problems, and how so many elected officials believed they were exempt from the law. Just like regular citizens, politicians should be required to obey tax codes. Moreover, the timing of many of the scandals was truly unfortunate. There should be higher levels of scrutiny in place and more tax records demanded from high level public officials to identify corruption earlier than...
...number of undergraduate Houses from seven to 10—sought to acquire a stretch of prime river-front property owned by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. But from his corner of City Hall, Councillor Alfred “Big Al” E. Vellucci moved to block tax-exempt Harvard’s expansion, hoping instead that private investors would develop the land and augment the city’s coffers.But before either party could have its way, the MTA (now called the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) would have to agree to sell its 12 acres west of Kirkland...
...opinion last May ruled that any discrimination against gays is no less outrageous - and illegal - than discrimination based on race or religion. Despite the sweep of that ruling, George and five other justices ruled on Tuesday that there is nothing so special about gay-marriage rights that make them exempt from the state's famously disruptive and pliable constitutional-amendment process...