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...Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (not Joe Wurzelberger); that Wurzelbacher would face "much higher taxes" turns out would not be true after he admitted that the business he wants to buy likely wouldn't make enough to be taxed under Obama's plan; and more importantly, the fact that McCain apparently mistook Wurzelbacher's desired salary of $250,000 for his current salary, which the plumber says is far less. Which of course begs the question: How much do plumbers actually make? The standard assumption is that they earn a pretty decent wage. Americans want and need working pipes, just like they...
MADONNA and A-Rod deny affair. She apparently mistook him for a basketball player...
...number were not, and there was a bit too much homogeneity. In this respect, there has been a revolution, instigated especially by Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, and carried out by all those in charge of admissions. The triumph of diversity, lamented by some conservatives who mistook it for a degradation of standards, is actually the best thing that could have happened—a grand experiment not only in cross-fertilization, but a breaking down of age-old barriers and of prejudices. It is, inevitably, incomplete, for instance insofar as blacks and American Hispanics are concerned...
...other lesson to be learned is not to exaggerate the consequences of these trade disputes. Back in the 1980s, Americans mistook Japan's edge in trade as a sign of their own economic ruin. Today, the whole idea that Japan was supposed to shove the U.S. economy into oblivion seems quite silly. What most Americans didn't understand is that U.S. economic success didn't depend on making TV sets; it was based on the technological innovation at which Americans excel. Beginning in the early 1990s, the U.S. experienced one of its most sustained economic booms ever in part...
...Scheider's oceanic wickedness. It's not true; sharks attack and move on. The shark that bit into Martin - probably a 15- to 16-foot great white, according to a marine scientist quoted in Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, was probably a bit dim. The animal likely mistook Martin, who was clad in a black wetsuit, for a seal. Some here are even wondering if, in a way, the seals are actually responsible for Martin's death: in the last few years, seals have overtaken a local coastal area known as Children's Pool. San Diego County residents...