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...subject, why not let Brad work his catching magic with some quality pitching besides Wade Miller and future Cy Young winner Roy Oswalt? Though he just resigned for another year, the Shaner’s back is iffy, so it can’t hurt to pick up another veteran...
...proposal is being fiercely opposed by seven smaller carriers, including such moneymakers as Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran, which have filed formal complaints with the DOT. They claim that such alliances give too much market power to the large carriers and could drive smaller ones out of business and hurt consumers. Says Southwest CEO Jim Parker: "This alliance is really a de facto merger that is likely to result in less competition and higher prices." Airline observers are also concerned about how the DOT is reviewing the deal. Unusually, for a case with such large implications for U.S. travelers, the department...
However, the idea of increasing the taxes on cigarettes is a move that will unfairly hurt the low-income communities who are already suffering most from the terrible effects of cigarette addiction. Any tax on goods that are widely consumed at a flat rate make the biggest difference in the lives of those with the smallest incomes, but taxing cigarettes is particularly detrimental precisely because nicotine is an addictive substance. If a tax on soda were imposed, it would be easy enough for people to switch to drinking another beverage, but cigarettes have no “substitute good...
Robert Orsi, Warren professor of the history of religion in America and a specialist in Catholicism, said Hehir’s scholarly work might also hurt...
...Dean D. McCallister ’04 was “shocked. Shocked and disgusted,” to discover that the 40 minutes spent manually stimulating Dana S. Marin ’04 hurt his Mario Kart skills. “I was doing time trials in Wario [Stadium], and I was not executing power turns with any degree of skill because my fingers ached,” McCallister recalled. Said Marin, “I enjoyed the rambunctious fingering session, but it was a little distracting when Dean tried to ‘fire my red shells?...